A globally endangered rainforest with cedar trees more than 1,000 years old will be permanently protected in a new conservancy in southeast B.C. The 58,000-hectare conservancy in the Incomappleux Valley was announced Wednesday by Premier David Eby, who called the valley’s rare inland temperate rainforest “one of B.C.’s greatest treasures.”

A downtown business owner is trying a novel way to keep his storefront safe, secure and clean overnight. Before leaving for the day, NYLA Fresh Thread owner Leon Drzewiecki begins playing the viral children’s song “Baby Shark” by Pinkfong on the speaker outside his Commercial St. storefront. The new routine began Saturday, Jan. 7.

Repeated and deliberate bylaw violations at a Surrey home led to a stern rebuke from a B.C. Supreme Court judge.

​​From above, the closed Tulsequah Chief mine in northwest B.C. seems small as it sits by the Tulsequah River a few kilometers from the waterway’s confluence with the Taku River. But up close, the site is an “open, oozing wound,” said Guy Archibald, executive director of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission. “There’s bright orange water running down the hill, running into this huge pond of bright orange water that just overflows into the river.”

The B.C. government will now work with multiple agencies and organizations to establish indicators to establish outcomes.

North Vancouver could become the first city in North America to warm people’s homes using an unconventional method: harnessing the heat emitted from an entire room of code-cracking Bitcoin servers.

The members of the Directors Guild of Canada in British Columbia have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, after a year of negotiations on a new contract reached an impasse.

While B.C. has touted its own climate plan as among the best in the world, climate experts and environmental advocates point out that the province's emissions keep climbing — in part due to ongoing investment in fossil fuels.

Once a home for Swiss mountain guides, the hamlet of Edelweiss is now totally deserted.

Animal rescue organizations across Canada have received thousands of dollars in honour of the late Betty White, the much-loved actor and animal-rights advocate. Monday would have marked White's 100th birthday, but she died on Dec. 31.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has banned Nanaimo, B.C., fisherman Scott Stanley Matthew Steer from fishing for life. The sentence was delivered on Nov. 12, 2021, and it is the first lifetime ban for a Pacific region fisherman in more than a decade.

Family members of those targeted with racist comments are questioning how the RCMP handled the incident.

E. coli outbreaks used to mainly be linked to hamburgers, but the last decade has seen recall after recall of tainted romaine lettuce coming into Canada from the United States. At least seven people have died, and hundreds have been sickened or hospitalized in both countries. Toddler Lucas Parker was one of them.

Teachers at a school in Abbotsford, B.C., started opening classroom windows after learning in December that there was no ventilation system in an older wing of the school. But many of the windows were later screwed shut, with school officials citing safety issues.

For a handful of RCMP officers in the village of Midway, B.C., the line of duty goes far beyond crime prevention. Officers recently responded to a residence in that small community near the U.S. border to assist paramedics on a medical call. An elderly man was taken to hospital with one of the officers taking it upon himself to visit the home and check on the man’s wife.

B.C. environmental groups say a plan to formally protect about half of the forest covered by a landmark deal is two years behind schedule.

The battle over the CGL pipeline in B.C. both on social media and in the press is dividing the Wet’suwet’en Nation some members say.

Vancouver is now home to the first biometric opioid vending machine, the latest harm reduction strategy in the ongoing opioid crisis. The vending machine, located in the city’s Downtown Eastside at 60 Hastings Street next to an overdose prevention site, was launched by the MySafe Project, which is led by Dr. Mark Tyndall, a professor of medicine at UBC’s School of Population and Public Health. Tyndall showed how it works in a video posted on social media this week.

Newly-obtained footage shows the underwater fish farm pipe in British Columbia is still churning out virus-infected blood and guts.

Legislature to consider ‘tradition as old as Parliament itself’ recently found discriminatory by humanist association.