Vancouver

A man in Victoria has been arrested after allegedly swinging a hatchet near passing pedestrians.

Burnaby's mayor and council are demanding answers – and looking to be reimbursed for a $30,000 firefighting bill – after an incident at the Parkland Refinery that prompted a public safety advisory and an air quality bulletin.

Renters in Vancouver pay the highest prices and face the lowest vacancy rates in the country, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Two suspects have been arrested and charged following a robbery at an Arc'teryx store on Vancouver's west side this week.

All three ski areas on Metro Vancouver's North Shore were closed Wednesday as warm, rainy weather soaked their peaks.

The Canadian Premier League is proving you really can come home, even if you wear cleats for a living.

British Columbia's Mental Health and Addictions Minister Jennifer Whiteside says ending the province's three-year drug decriminalization project won't save "a single life," as the experiment comes under political pressure and the overdose death toll continues to rise.

Dozens more temperature records – including one from the 19th century – were broken in B.C. on Tuesday as "a very mild airmass" lingered over the province, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.

The Vancouver Canucks have signed general manager Patrik Allvin to a multi-year contract extension.

British Columbia's population is projected to reach 7.9 million by 2046 according to official projections and statistics that suggest the province is experiencing the fastest growth in 50 years.

A former Victoria public school student has been awarded more than $2.3 million from the estate of a school tutor who sexually abused him as a child. His lawyers say the decision amounts to the 'highest compensatory damages award for sexual abuse in Canada,' but the plaintiff says survivors like him still have a long way to go before justice is achieved.

A junior hockey goalie from B.C.'s Lower Mainland is recovering from a serious injury suffered during an on-ice brawl last week.

Mounties in Kelowna are investigating an unusual car theft in which the suspect drove the vehicle through a closed garage door to make his escape.

The B.C. government has agreed to pay for a new addictions recovery centre in Greater Victoria that’s desperately needed by women on Vancouver Island.

Researchers say an orca calf that was born to J pod of the endangered southern resident killer whales off the British Columbia and Washington state coasts is missing and presumed dead.