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An orca that was stranded on some rocks was kept alive for eight hours by a dedicated team of whale researchers and volunteers on the North Coast of B.C.

In an effort to stop the conversion of low-income single-room occupancy hotels, Vancouver council has adopted punishing new fees for owners wanting to get out of the business.

It’s been hoped for years that securing safe and affordable housing for the homeless and mentally ill would go a long way toward reducing substance abuse and addiction rates among that population. That belief has been a cornerstone in government poli ...

For the second time this summer, the Okanagan has been placed under a Smoky Skies Advisory.

These thumbnail-size animals may look like jellyfish stripped of their tentacles, but they're actually a lot weirder than that.

Conventional wisdom held that pythons and anacondas suffocate their prey. Instead, the predators cut off their victims' blood supply, a new study says.

Federal approval of Pacific NorthWest’s Lelu Island bridge and trestle proposal might not happen until the fall

UBC professor argues precautionary drought restrictions should have been in place much earlier

A stunning image from the Deep Space Climate Observatory is the first of its kind since the Apollo 17 mission’s iconic ‘blue marble’ picture

Daily water consumption in the region has not dropped enough, despite increasing water restrictions and reservoir levels falling well below the norm for this time of year.

In modern-day Vancouver, policies at all three levels of government are leading to another great generational wealth transfer – not on Russia’s scale, perhaps, but certainly the largest in the city’s history

Rising sea levels, epic droughts, massive flooding: the effects of climate change are already here. How do we adapt? From the Netherlands to Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Alex Bozikovic explores the cutting-edge engineering – and cultural shifts – tha ...

Researchers from MacEwan University will use Arctic sea floor mapping research to understand the past, and present a key to the future. “Its about the closest thing we can get to a time machine,” says Mark Furze, of the research that he and Anna Pién ...

B.C.'s southern resident orcas may be the most studied marine mammals in the world but their survival is still precarious, particular for four calves born this year.

One of the largest leaks in Alberta history has spilled about five million litres of emulsion from a Nexen Energy pipeline at the company’s Long Lake oilsands facility south of Fort McMurray.

For one and a half years, Abu Abdullah was responsible for organizing Islamic State's suicide bombings in Baghdad. He is one of the organization's rare leading figures to be captured alive. SPIEGEL met with him in a high-security prison in ...

In British Columbia, more than 2,300 workers are risking their lives battling upwards of 200 active wildfires. Reporter Andrea Woo and photographer John Lehmann joined one team putting out a blaze along the Sunshine Coast

B.C.'s most experienced rehabilitation specialist for black bears said Wednesday it is crazy for the Ministry of Environment to assert that two eight-week-old cubs on northern Vancouver Island needed to be destroyed because they'd become ha ...