People stranded on the Coquihalla Highway during a snowfall-induced closure decided to kill some time by playing road hockey.

Consumers and retailers be on guard: there's a new and more devious way for fraudsters to steal your credit and debit card information. "Shimmers" are the newest form of credit card skimmers, only smaller, more powerful and practically impossible to detect. And they're popping up all over the place, says RCMP Cpl. Michael McLaughlin, who sounded the alarm after four shimmers were extracted from checkout card readers at a Coquitlam, B.C., retailer.

A Nanaimo, B.C., woman who contracted the hepatitis C virus through tainted blood has been denied a blockbuster new medication the province says is extremely expensive and would bankrupt the health budget. "I think about having hepatitis C every day," says Nikky Davies, who has liver damage and suffers from headaches, nausea and fatigue. "It's ruined my quality of life." Davies, 54, was excited to hear about the new drug Harvoni, which eliminates the hepatitis C virus in approximately 95 per cent of all patients (not including those with liver failure or who have had a liver transplant) and made news when actor...

The city’s new report on sea level rise looks at many options to protect coastal areas from flooding. For the first time, moving people away from the coast altogether is one of them. By Stephen Buranyi.

On Tuesday, November 8th, 2016, three West Shore RCMP members took on the role of babysitters at a local Langford daycare, after the provider sustained a medical emergency and had to be transported to hospital. According to the West Shore RCMP, the officers attended the daycare home and provided babysitting services to the four young children.

Amanita phalloides — the so-called death cap mushroom that poisoned someone in Victoria this week — is the deadliest mushroom in the world, responsible for an estimated 90 per cent of fatal poisonings worldwide.

Driving into the town of Osoyoos, British Columbia, visitors notice the landscape becomes drier. The lodgepole pines and Douglas fir trees that dominate the Okanagan Valley's forests become sparse. If you look closely enough, you may even spot a cactus. Known as the hottest place in Canada, Osoyoos is surrounded by the Okanagan Desert, a semi-arid region that is home to hundreds of plant and animal species unique to the area. This region is particularly special, Lael Parrott, director of the Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity...

The B.C. government plans to tax foreigners who buy residential property in the Vancouver area – an announcement that follows months of pressure to address foreign speculation that many have blamed for the region’s superheated housing market. Finance Minister Mike de Jong said the 15 per cent tax, which takes effect Aug. 2, will apply to the sale of all residential properties within Metro Vancouver, excluding treaty lands in the Tsawwassen First Nation. The tax will apply to buyers who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents...

Over 30 families have fled their homes in Dawson Creek, B.C., after floodwaters cut the community in half and washed out at least one bridge overnight.

It was the loudest cheer of her political career. Too bad she was calling for silence. Vicki Huntington said she could only smile as her plea to ban applause in British Columbia’s often raucous legislature was met with deafening applause and prolonged desk thumping from a chamber packed with cheering Liberals and New Democrats.

How foreign investors are squeezing out Vancouver’s middle class. By Kerry Gold. (Mar. 30)

A carbon tax may be a controversial topic in the United States, but in one Canadian province, this eight-year-old policy has been such a success that on Wednesday more than 100 businesses said they support a tax increase. In a letter addressed to Premier Christy Clark, who governs the province of British Columbia, more than 150 companies said they back a plan to increase the carbon tax by $10 — about $7.70 U.S....

Canada’s Lax Kw’alaams show us how we can be saved: by loving the natural world and local living economies more than mere money and profit. By Martin Lukacs.

Two employees with the Ministry of Transportation have been posting a series of "RoadTrip Time Machines" on YouTube, allowing British Columbians to see what the busiest corridors in the province looked like in 1966.

In February 2003, an avalanche killed seven students in B.C.’s Glacier National Park. None of the survivors of that day have ever talked to the media. Until now. By Ainsley Doty.

British Columbia's energy regulator has confirmed that a 4.6 magnitude earthquake In Northern B.C. earlier this year was caused by a nearby fracking operation.

Even more stunning, the study shows that of all declared occupations of owners — on homes worth an average $3.05M — 36% were housewives or students with little income

National Geographic photographers reveal their intimate encounters with these unique coastal predators.

A university student discovered a large and rare dinosaur footprint, in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., from the same family of top predators as the T.Rex.