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• Pedestrian pronounced dead on scene after being struck by vehicle in Maple Ridge: RCMP

  A 69-year-old man is dead after being struck by a vehicle in Maple Ridge Thursday night.

  

• BC Ferries to cancel 2 sailings due to wind, warns several more at risk of same fate

  With a wind warning in effect for Metro Vancouver, BC Ferries has cancelled at least two sailings scheduled for Friday and says nearly two dozen more may follow suit.

  

• Caught on video: Nanaimo teenager hits would-be armed robber with baseball bat

  A teenager in Nanaimo, B.C., is being hailed as a hero by his family after a would-be robber entered their business and the boy scared him off with a baseball bat.

• ABC Vancouver outspent nearest challenger by almost 2:1 margin in municipal election

  Mayor Ken Sim's A Better City Vancouver party spent nearly twice as much as any other party on last year's municipal elections, according to data released by Elections BC Thursday.

• Daughter speaks out after Mounties charged in death of Indigenous man in Prince George

  CTV News has learned that four of five RCMP officers facing charges in the death of an Indigenous man during an arrest in Prince George are still on active duty.

• China: Balloon over U.S. skies is for research, wind pushed it

  China said Friday that a balloon spotted over American airspace was used for weather research and was blown off course, despite U.S. suspicion it was spying. The discovery further strained already tense relations between Beijing and Washington.

• Killer sentenced to 15 years in 2020 South Vancouver slaying

  A man who was gunned down outside of his business in South Vancouver never got the chance to meet his daughter, a court heard as his killer was sentenced.

• Ad for tap-to-donate teddy bear designed for street youth is part of provocative campaign

  A nationwide billboard campaign that appears to promote grunge-chic clothing for street youth is causing confusion and igniting debate.

• Liberals withdraw controversial amendment to guns bill

  The federal Liberals are withdrawing an amendment to their guns bill that introduced a controversial new definition of an assault-style weapon. The amendment would have defined what kind of firearms should be banned in Canada and added dozens of new semi-automatic rifles and shotguns to the list.

• Wind warnings issued for Metro Vancouver, Sunshine Coast and southern Gulf Islands

  Strong winds are expected to arrive Friday afternoon and last until the evening.

• Grade 12 student fatally shot in Burnaby, IHIT called in

  A 17-year-old boy was found fatally shot in a vehicle on a residential street in Burnaby Thursday afternoon, and homicide investigators have been called to the scene.

• 'Deformities in the fish': Pollutants found in waterways near Fraser Valley encampments

  Hidden along old logging roads and tucked in near rivers and waterways, are campers who have made Crown land near the Chilliwack River their homes.

• B.C. opposition leader proposes 'radical' mental health and addictions plan

  With an unrelenting overdose crisis claiming an average of six lives a day in British Columbia — the opposition leader says there needs to be a bigger focus on treatment options, and is proposing a model he calls a "radical shift."

• Charges laid in White Rock's 2016 'Five Corners Fire'

  More than six years after flames tore through an apartment building in White Rock, and more than 18 months after police announced they had made arrests in the case, charges have now been laid against a Surrey man, Mounties announced Thursday.

• 1 dead, another injured after commercial trucks collide on Highway 5

  A crash on Highway 5 involving two commercial vehicles has left one person dead and another injured.

• 'He’s the Downtown Eastside newspaper': Community push for City of Vancouver to recognize street artist

  Community members on the Downtown Eastside want the City of Vancouver to recognize Smokey Devil, a well-known street artist .

• 'Six more weeks of winter': Vancouver Island Marmot makes weather prediction on Groundhog Day

  A furry mascot endemic only to Vancouver Island is predicting six more weeks of winter on Groundhog Day.

• Vancouver Chinatown vandalism suspect arrested amid surge of reported incidents

  Vancouver police say they've arrested a suspect in a spate of vandalism incidents in Chinatown.

• 7 B.C. school districts to add mental health support teams, bringing total to 12

  British Columbia is expanding mental-health and substance-use services for children and youth by adding new multi-disciplinary teams to seven school districts.

• Number in hospital with COVID-19 in B.C. hits another new low in latest update

  The number of patients with COVID-19 in B.C. hospitals declined again this week, once again reaching a low not seen since before the province began including incidental hospitalizations in its count.