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• COVID-19 in B.C.: Update coming from health ministry as nearly 80% are fully vaccinated

  Eighty per cent of B.C. residents age 12 and up should soon be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as the vaccination rate inched up from 79.5 per cent on Tuesday.

  

• Candidates in razor-thin B.C. races could be waiting days for mail-in results

  The Election Day results in three B.C. ridings are so close the candidates may be waiting for days while mail-in ballots are verified and counted.

  

• B.C.'s provincial health officer pleads with pregnant women to get vaccinated

  A number of unvaccinated pregnant women are battling COVID-19 in B.C. intensive care units, health officials revealed Tuesday while pushing for expectant mothers to get immunized.

• Woman beaten on SkyTrain after asking 2 passengers if they had masks, transit police say

  A woman was allegedly beaten by two maskless SkyTrain passengers this week after asking them if they had masks to wear.

• COVID-19 update: B.C. hospitalizations still surging as hundreds of surgeries delayed

  The number of COVID-19 patients in B.C. hospitals continued to climb on Tuesday, adding to the pandemic's ongoing strain on health-care resources that has already resulted in hundreds of delayed surgeries in recent weeks.

• Possible human remains found in wooded area of Surrey

  Police are investigating after possible human remains were found in a wooded area of Surrey, B.C., this week.

• COVID-19 in schools: B.C. changing how parents will be notified about cases

  With students in B.C. being back in class for a couple of weeks, the province's health officials are already changing some of its procedures around COVID-19 notifications and contact tracing in schools.

• More than 100 unvaccinated B.C. health-care workers off last week due to COVID-19

  Despite incoming vaccine mandates for workers in B.C.'s health-care system, more than 100 were off work last week because they hadn't yet had the shots, and had been exposed to COVID-19.

• Despite plan to cull dozens of coyotes, Vancouver's Stanley Park fully reopens after only 4 killed

  Officials planned to trap and kill dozens of Stanley Park coyotes during a two-week cull, but with only four of the animals euthanized, the park is still reopening on schedule.

• Rockfall closes climbing routes on B.C.'s 'Chief'

  Climbing on many routes of the renowned Stawamus Chief in Squamish, B.C., has been suspended until at least early next year after what BC Parks says are "multiple, significant rockfalls."

• Fish 'die-off' in Stanley Park's Lost Lagoon under investigation

  A number of dead fish have been spotted in Lost Lagoon in Vancouver's Stanley Park over the past couple of days, prompting an investigation by the Stanley Park Ecology Society.

• Schools in Salmon Arm, B.C., maintain some safety measures after anti-vaccine protest

  The main doors of many public schools in Salmon Arm, B.C., remained locked Tuesday but the school district says it has lifted "hold and secure" measures in place since a disturbing protest last week.

• 'Think about your family': Vancouver Island mother urges vaccinations after husband hospitalized with COVID-19

  Miranda Mellor is speaking out after her 39-year-old, vaccine-hesitant husband ended up in the intensive care unit (ICU) at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria for treatment of COVID-19.

• Problem of mismatched names on B.C. vaccine cards fixed, health officials say

  Complaints from vaccinated B.C. residents who discovered the name on their vaccine card doesn't match their government ID have been heard and addressed, health officials said Tuesday.

• 'They are telling me how overwhelmed our ICU is': Victoria hospitals see influx of COVID-19 patients

  Crystal Mundy says she is speaking on behalf of 20 doctors and nurses at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria who are afraid to come forward.

• Election 2021: Here's how the parties fared in B.C.

  Results in B.C. will go a long way toward determining the size of the Liberals' minority government caucus.