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• Potential COVID-19 vaccine card 'loophole' circulating online

  A possible loophole in B.C.’s vaccine card registration system is making the rounds on social media.

  

• Canucks banking on capacity limits being lifted, selling all regular season seats

  The Vancouver Canucks are banking on the capacity limits at Rogers Arena being lifted in time for the regular season home opener.

  

• Conservative Alice Wong loses Richmond Centre seat to Liberal challenger

  In a significant upset, the long-time Conservative incumbent in Richmond Centre has lost her seat to a political newcomer, according to the CTV News Decision Desk.

• B.C. considering tougher laws to protect patients, students from anti-vaccine protesters

  The B.C. government is considering tougher laws to discourage anti-vaccine protesters from disrupting the daily operations of schools and hospitals in the province, Premier John Horgan said Thursday.

• COVID-19 in B.C.: Latest update includes more than 800 cases, 5 deaths

  B.C. added 832 new cases of COVID-19 to its total on Thursday, as well as five deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.

• Premiers push for more unconditional health-care funding from feds

  Canada's premiers are demanding a meeting with the newly re-elected prime minister to ask for more money -- no strings attached -- to pump into their health-care systems.

• TransLink says it's seeing a surge in ridership, but transit use is still only about half what it was before COVID-19

  The first week of school in September brought TransLink its biggest surge in ridership since before the COVID-19 pandemic began, the transit operator said Thursday.

• Teen missing in Squamish; rescue crews organizing public search

  Search and rescue crews in Squamish are ramping up search efforts for a teenage boy who was reported missing from his home Wednesday morning.

• 4th 'murder hornet' nest destroyed near B.C. border in Washington state

  Another nest built by Asian giant hornets north of Seattle close to the Canada border has been destroyed, according to state officials.

• Homes near B.C. fracking sites have more pollutants: study on health impacts

  A new study has found homes close to fracking oil and gas wells in British Columbia have higher levels of certain organic pollutants, which may lead to short- and long-term health effects.

• As 4th wave drags on, more Canadians fear the worst of the pandemic is yet to come, poll finds

  As Canadians grapple with the ongoing fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, people have become less optimistic that the worst of the disease is behind them.

• COVID-19 outbreak leads to closure of Lower Mainland school after 20 people test positive

  A school in B.C.'s Lower Mainland is closing for more than a week due to a COVID-19 outbreak.

• East Vancouver homeowner's bid for $1 million increase to property assessment rejected

  B.C.'s Property Assessment Appeal Board has rejected an East Vancouver homeowner's argument that his property was undervalued by more than $1 million in its most recent assessment.

• 'Food-conditioned' bear killed by conservation in North Vancouver was 'peaceful and trusting,' society says

  A black bear recently killed by conservation officers in North Vancouver was believed to be "peaceful and trusting," a local society says.

• Customer savings under enhanced care plan better than projected: ICBC

  ICBC customers renewing their personal auto insurance under the Crown-run auto insurer's enhanced care plan are saving more than the average of $400 originally projected when the new system was first announced in February of last year.

• COVID-19 patient whose induced coma prompted B.C. family's plea for vaccinations has died

  A B.C. woman who was in an induced coma due to COVID-19, prompting an impassioned public plea from her family, has died.