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• 4 arrested after hours-long police incident spanning several Metro Vancouver cities

  Four men were arrested and a police officer was sent to hospital after an hours-long incident that stretched through several Lower Mainland cities Friday night.

  

• Petition calls for B.C. to ban rat poisons, citing negative effects on wildlife

  A Vancouver Island group is pushing for British Columbia to become the first province in Canada to ban rat poison and other rodenticides, saying they are inhumane and have detrimental effects on local wildlife.

  

• 9-year-old girl reported missing in Surrey found safe, RCMP say

  Mounties in Surrey say a nine-year-old girl reported missing in the city Friday night has been found and is safe.

• COVID-19 outbreak at Royal Columbian Hospital confined to one unit, says Fraser Health

  One unit is closed to admissions, but the rest of the hospital including the emergency department is still open.

• 11 flights added to B.C.'s list of COVID-19 exposures

  The flights, which either took off from or landed at a B.C. airport between Feb. 10 and 22, are confirmed to have had a person on-board who was infected with the coronavirus.

• Police seek missing Powell River woman last seen at ferry terminal

  Police in Powell River are asking for the public's help finding a missing woman who was last heard from nearly a week ago.

• IIO investigating circumstances of off-duty Richmond RCMP officer's death

  B.C.'s police watchdog says it is investigating the death of an off-duty Richmond RCMP officer who had suffered what appeared to be self-inflicted injuries.

• COVID-19 update: B.C. reports 589 cases, 7 deaths in last update of the week

  British Columbia has recorded another 589 cases of COVID-19 and seven related deaths, health officials announced in their last coronavirus update of the week.

• How the approved AstraZeneca vaccine could affect B.C.'s mass vaccination plans

  It appears unlikely that British Columbians will be able to select which COVID-19 vaccine they receive as mass vaccination clinics expand across the province in the coming months, but the approval of the AstraZeneca vaccine may lead to other significant changes to the province's rollout.

• Bid to host 2030 Olympics in Vancouver has been in the works for 18 months, Furlong says

  Work on a bid to host the 2030 Olympic Games in Vancouver has been underway for a year and a half already, according to John Furlong.

• Girl grabbed by stranger in Surrey, police say

  Police in Surrey are investigating after a girl was assaulted by a stranger in the city's Cloverdale neighbourhood Friday afternoon.

• Most recent reports show Metro Vancouver fell behind safety recommendations for Cleveland Dam

  CTV News has obtained a pair of Cleveland Dam safety review reports, commissioned years apart, which show Metro Vancouver did not immediately implement all safety recommendations, including some pertaining to the drum gate at the centre of a fatal accident that claimed the lives of a father and son last year.

• 'Your parents would be ashamed': B.C. premier responds to threats against Dr. Bonnie Henry

  B.C. Premier John Horgan has a message for the people threatening provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry: "Your parents would be ashamed of you."

• Fate of Surrey driver in crash that killed teen now rests with Supreme Court justice

  The Crown presented its closing arguments Friday in the trial of Rituraj Grewal, who is charged in connection with a crash in 2017 that killed 17-year-old Travis Selje.

• Video shows officers posing in front of body; Vancouver police under investigation

  A spokeswoman for Vancouver police says the conduct of two officers is under investigation after video footage emerged of the pair allegedly posing with a dead body at a popular beach.

• B.C. prisoners asked for masks for months, didn't receive PPE until they tested positive for COVID-19, mom says

  The mother of an inmate at a prison in B.C.'s Fraser Valley says her son and other prisoners have been asking for masks and other personal protective equipment since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but weren't given any until several people in their cohort had tested positive for the disease.