British Columbia news

Young adults who have been in B.C. foster care will get more money for rent, child care and health care, the B.C. government announced Sunday.

The navy will release more details about the incident Sunday afternoon.

Isabelle Smit is one of 20 international adoptees from Chongqing who posted a video together to China's equivalent of YouTube, asking potential biological relatives to submit DNA samples.

A Grade 7 student from Aldergrove is the first child in the province to be granted coverage of a drug that costs about $228,000 each year.

Greyhound received permission to stop bus service in several areas of B.C. this week, meaning the bus company's two remaining routes on Vancouver Island - connecting Victoria to Nanaimo and Vancouver - will be scrapped.

"It's not only not fair, but it's not acceptable ... and I think everybody you talk to agrees with that," John Black's sister says.

University students on Vancouver Island have launch a program to address the trauma experienced by children affected by the opioid epidemic.

With 80% of us already given up on our new year’s resolutions – Registered Dietician – Jess Pirnak – has some expert advice on how you can get your health goals back on track.

Dr Bonnie Leadbeater informs us of some helpful tips and advice on dealing with bullying.

RCMP say they responded to a report of a father who tried to leave with his child during a supervised visit on Saturday afternoon.

Lorrie Williams is playing it safe in suggesting people give up plastic bags across the region as the City of Victoria is facing legal backlash to their ban.

Finance Minister Carole James hasn't stated what metrics the government will use to define success.

Elaine Tanner brought home three Olympic medals from Mexico City, more than any Canadian had ever won. It should have been a shining moment for the accomplished teenage swimmer.

Housing advocates in Chinatown are holding a rally

Officers arrived and used a taser on the man, sending him into medical distress. He later died.

Officers arrived and used a taser on the man, sending him into medical distress.

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The Canadian Olympic Committee confirms that Dave Duncan, his wife Maja and Canadian technical coach William Raine had been detained by police in South Korea and were now released after an alleged drunken joyride. Jeff Semple is in South Korea with more.

Before Christmas, we introduced you to John Black: a quadruple amputee who was struggling to find a new place to move to. He thought he had a new home as of this coming Thursday only to find out it wasn’t available. Now he has no place to go. Julia Foy has more.

Team Canada picked up a gold medal in mixed doubles curling in Pyeongchang, something that did not go unnoticed by dozens of young curlers competing in Kamloops this weekend. The win has inspired them and hopefully another generation of curlers to get into the sport. Nadia Stewart has more from the BC Winter Games.

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The wintry blast is also leading to a warning to dog owners and walkers, keep your pets on leash when outdoors. That’s after two dogs got away from their owners and ended up in some frigid waters. Kristen Robinson reports. communities received a lot more snow than was forecast. Jill Bennett reports.

Nine-year-old Braydon De Repentigny said he was walking home from Kelowna's Spring Valley Elementary on Thursday when a white minivan stopped at the entrance to a parking lot, blocking his path along the sidewalk.

The Riverview Village Intentional Community Society envisions a kind of wellness utopia on the Coquitlam site, where patients would live alongside non-patients.

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Hundreds gathered in downtown Vancouver to protest this week's acquittal of Raymond Cormier in the death of 15-year-old Winnipeg teen Tina Fontaine.

Dozens were on the corner of West Georgia and Hamilton streets asking for systemic change saying Canada is not protecting Indigenous women and girls.

Wayne Sych, executive chef for Joe Fortes Seafood & Chophouse, shares a recipe for lobster rolls.

A Haida animator was responsible for helping the world of Wakanda come alive in a film that is breaking barriers at the box office.

Researchers at UBC Okanagan are asking British Columbians to submit voice recordings to help them determine if people from the Okanagan have certain characteristics that separate their accents from other parts of the province.