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

Tofino and Ucluelet are side-by-side towns on the edge of Vancouver Island, British Columbia housing old-growth rainforests, beaches and dramatic coastlines

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 habituated to human food.

On a day when China’s stock market rout hit the share prices of B.C.-based commodity producers and spilled panic into North American capital markets, Vancouver resident Wendy Wu was focused on the pain in her own trading portfolio. “I’m annoyed to death. Annoyed to death,” said an exasperated Wu, who has been day trading Chinese stocks since before she moved to Vancouver’s west side from Luoyang in central China.

My hometown, Vancouver, is in a rainforest, so we celebrate sunny days. People I talk to are enjoying the recent warm, dry weather, but they invariably add, ‘This isn’t normal’ — especially with all the smoke from nearby forest fires.

As wildfires rage across parts of B.C., the resulting smoke and ash have spread over several communities, prompting residents to share their jaw-dropping photos of the eerily dark skies.

The Burnaby Fire Department has dispatched a number of fire crews to Burnaby Mountain after residents spotted a plume of smoke.

Metro Vancouver has issued an Air Quality Advisory for Metro Vancouver because of high concentrations of fine particulate matter, due to smoke from wildfires outside our region. .

Smoke from forest fires and a light deck of marine cloud combined to give the sky an orange hue along the south coast Sunday morning. Here are some of the Twitter images from around the region.

Several new wildfires and a few old ones have caused local authorities to issue evacuation orders and states of emergency in several B.C. communities.

Vancouver's new police chief agrees with the federal government that the city's enormous growth in marijuana dispensaries are illegal, but he has no plans to crack down.

Park Board considering permanent Love Locks site in Vancouver

Fraser, a 120lbs Labrador, needed a little help from North Shore Rescue Thursday afternoon, after he and his owner went for a hike to Norvan Falls.

WestJet confirmed on Twitter Flight WS1709 from Las Vegas to Victoria had landed safely after receiving a threat on Thursday night.

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The City of Vancouver has approved a two-tier licensing system to curb the explosion of illegal medical marijuana dispen- saries, defying warnings from the federal government by becoming the first jurisdiction in Canada to regulate storefront pot sales. Councillors voted on Wednesday to introduce a new business licensing system for compassion clubs and dispensaries, whose numbers have ballooned to about 100 across the city, up from a handful just several years ago.

Conservation officers in northern B.C. are investigating after video surfaced this weekend of a boater jumping on top of a moose swimming in a lake.

VANCOUVER — Doctors in British Columbia have elected a new president to head their professional association next year after a tie forced a second vote. Dr. Alan Ruddiman has been elected to head Doctors of BC, with 3,065 votes, while Dr. Brian Day received 2,462 votes.

Organizers of Vancouver’s beloved public piano program may have to turn down the volume on the free concerts this summer unless they can raise $20,000 by Canada Day. Keys to the Streets, a student-led initiative that began in 2013 by placing pianos for anyone to play in spaces around the city in July and August, only has enough cash thus far to place three pianos, down from 10 locations last year.

It's the second time in little over a month that healthy trees have been illegally cut down in Vancouver's Dunbar neighbourhood.