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A B.C. teacher was suspended for two days for showing students films about puppets drawing skulls, caressing kettles and dead stick figure children, a July 16 B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation document says.

Trout Lake’s two-week swimming closure is over.Vancouver Coastal Health announced Wednesday afternoon that the water is good to go, 13 days after high E. coli counts prompted its closure.

North Vancouver RCMP say one man is in hospital and another has been ticketed following a collision between a cyclist and a driver Wednesday morning.

"Taking into account all of the work so far, it has come time to re-assess our deployment of resources to the area. Over the next week, the RCMP will begin to scale down the search efforts in northern Manitoba."

An 89-year-old man was assaulted with what appeared to be a machete in downtown Courtenay Wednesday morning.

Heroes in a half-shell...

Sobeys Inc. grocery stores will begin to phase out plastic bags by February 2020. Sobeys operates more than 1,500 stores across all its chains in Canada.

With thousands of Vancouverites expected at the Celebration of Light fireworks kick off tonight and Pride festivities next weekend, the city is reminding residents there will be road closures in place.

A Richmond man has plead guilty to helping smuggle dozens of Chinese migrants across the border from the U.S. into Canada.

After chasing nearly 300 tips, canvassing more than 500 homes, and searching hundreds of kilometres of northern Manitoba wilderness by foot and air, police are no closer to finding wanted B.C. murder suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky.