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  Family says Fraser Health failed missing Maple Ridge woman

  A Maple Ridge family is desperately searching for a woman who vanished 13 days ago after security escorted her out of the Ridge Meadows Hospital.

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  Vancouver mayor to propose significant changes involving park board Wednesday: sources

  Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is expected to propose some fundamental changes to the city's park board at a news conference scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday.

• 'Hughes Bowl': Canucks defeated by Devils 6-5 in sibling showdown

  In time Quinn Hughes will appreciate the experience more. But moments after a heart-wrenching 6-5 loss to the New Jersey Devils Tuesday night, the Vancouver Canucks defenceman wasn't savouring the experience of playing against his two brothers.

• Scholarship launched for volleyball player killed in B.C. car crash, two critically injured athletes identified online

  A scholarship has been set up in memory of the varsity volleyball player killed in a multi-vehicle crash in Kamloops, B.C., last week.

• Here is Canada's unseasonably mild December forecast

  December is predicted to be unseasonably mild across Canada, thanks to a "moderate-to-strong" El Nino and human-caused warming. Warming and precipitation trends will be stronger in some parts of the country than others, and severe weather is still possible, meteorologists say.

• Bank of Canada holds its key interest rate steady at 5% in final decision of 2023

  The Bank of Canada once again held its key interest rate steady at five per cent Wednesday, encouraged by evidence that higher rates are helping bring inflation down.

• B.C. man who posed as massage therapist used social media to 'target' women he sexually assaulted, court hears

  A B.C. man who sexually assaulted 12 women while posing as a masseur has been sentenced to two years in prison, with the judge describing him as a "calculating, committed, long term, serial sexual predator."

• Why security experts say you shouldn't post pictures while on vacation

  Crime-prevention experts are urging travellers not to share their vacation plans online, or post photos while they’re away, because it lets thieves know that a home is empty.

• 3 Hughes brothers to face off for 1st time in NHL as Canucks host Devils

  The Hughes brothers are set to become just the ninth family in National Hockey League history to have three siblings suit up in the same game.

• Coast Guard investigates oily sheen covering Vancouver's False Creek

  The Canadian Coast Guard says it's trying to identify the source of a diesel smell and sheen covering Vancouver's False Creek.

• More than half of all weapons seizures by CBSA officers this year have been in B.C. and Yukon. Here's why.

  The Canada Border Services Agency seized roughly 22,700 weapons in the first 10 months of 2023. More than half of those – 13,400 – were seized in the agency's Pacific Region, which covers B.C. and Yukon.

• B.C. Review Board orders accused in Chinatown stabbing to remain in custody

  The man accused in a triple-stabbing in Vancouver's Chinatown neighbourhood earlier this year has been ordered to remain in custody at a forensic psychiatric hospital.

• B.C. homebuyer awarded more than $5K after seller failed to evict basement suite tenant

  The corporate seller of a B.C. home has been ordered to pay the buyer more than $5,000 for failing to evict a tenant who refused to leave.

• B.C. moves to reduce raw log exports, boost higher-value wood manufacturing

  British Columbia is moving to reduce the export of raw logs harvested in the province by requiring that certain types of lumber from the Interior undergo manufacturing first.