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Seven-year-old R.J. Pena and his neighbour were honoured for their heroic roles in saving Pena's family from a house fire in East Vancouver.

The College of Midwives of B.C. has tightened up an injunction against a rogue birth attendant who went to jail in 2002 for violating a court order by managing several home births – including one that ended in an emergency caesarean section at Burnaby Hospital.

Photo: Elle Star – GoFundMe Elle Starr, the person who started a GoFundMe campaign to support her friend who was recently injured ( LINK - warning: graphic images) has released a joint statement with said friend, Shawn Jones.

[READ STARR AND JONES' GOFUNDME UPDATE HERE ] Photo: Elle Star – GoFundMe Earlier this week we published an article about a GoFundMe fundraiser that had been set up to help the victim of an alleged "horrific assault" ( LINK - warning: contains graphi

Public health officials in British Columbia's Lower Mainland are warning drug users to consume less than they normally would following a spike in overdoses Friday night.

The assessment ranks volcanoes in terms of their relative threat. Specifically, it places volcanoes into five threat categories: very low, low, moderate, high, and very high.

Ukee, the Steller sea lion rescued earlier this month from a rocky shoreline in Ucluelet after being shot, has sadly died.

A British Columbia man has been deemed inadmissible to Canada for being a security risk based on his Facebook posts that glorified terrorism in support of the Islamic State group, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada says.

So-called “party buses” in B.C. will get hammered with fines up to $318 for infractions after the government came down heavy on the industry Friday.

While it is pretty standard to see a ferris wheel in various locations in the Lower Mainland, it is far less common to see one situated in Robson Square.