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  Hotel reinstates man's booking for Vancouver Taylor Swift weekend after claiming 'technical issue' forced it to cancel

  The scramble for accommodations in Vancouver during Taylor Swift's three-night Eras Tour finale got another unwilling participant Monday.

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  B.C. condo owner fined $30K over noise from son's piano playing

  A B.C. woman was fined tens of thousands of dollars for violating noise bylaws in her condo because her son practised piano in the family's unit, according to the Civil Resolution Tribunal.

• East Vancouver hit-and-run left victim with 'life-altering injuries,' police say

  Vancouver police are asking witnesses and the driver involved in a serious hit-and-run crash last week to come forward.

• 1 unaccounted for after Nanaimo house fire, police say

  One person is unaccounted for after a fire that destroyed a home in Nanaimo's south end Wednesday morning.

• B.C. Conservative leader names shadow cabinet, gives job to controversial member

  B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad has assigned jobs to 41 of his 44-member caucus, including giving a critic's position to MLA Brent Chapman, who faced calls to step down during the campaign over controversial social media remarks.

• Site of massive B.C. river slide remains unstable, effects on salmon not yet clear

  A salmon task force examining the impacts of the massive landslide that temporarily dammed British Columbia's Chilcotin River last July says there have been three "significant" slope failures since then, and the site remains unstable.

• Massive fire destroys under-construction condo building in Saanich

  An under-construction condo building in Saanich was engulfed in flames in the early morning hours Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of nearby residents.

• 'Bomb cyclone' batters B.C. coast with hurricane-force winds, downing trees onto roads and vehicles

  Massive trees toppled onto roads, power lines and parked cars as hurricane-force winds battered the B.C. coast overnight during an intense “bomb cyclone” weather event.

• B.C. government delegation jets to California to promote the province's film industry

  Just days after being appointed to their new jobs, three members of the British Columbia government are off to California to promote the province as a hot spot for film production.

• Surrey RCMP seize guns, drugs, cash in trafficking investigation

  Mounties in Surrey are touting a recent seizure of illicit drugs as one of the largest in the detachment's history.

• Emergency alert test comes as B.C. mops up from 'bomb cyclone' with high winds

  A test for Canada's emergency alert system took place Wednesday just as British Columbia was cleaning up from a so-called "bomb cyclone" weather system that cut power and battered parts of the coast with hurricane-force winds.

• Kayaker missing from West Vancouver

  A man who set out for a short paddle in his kayak Tuesday has been reported missing, according to authorities.

• B.C. man reunites with Nova Scotia stranger, 56 years after being saved from drowning

  After driving near the water that winter day, Brian Lavery thought he saw a dog splashing in the waves – then realized it was way too cold for that.

• B.C. port union challenges constitutionality of labour minister's back-to-work order

  The union representing port supervisors in British Columbia is formally challenging the legal and constitutional authority of the federal labour minister to order them back to work.