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  First Nations activist reflects on years-long fight against Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

  The taps have been turned on for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion – a national infrastructure project that overcame fierce public opposition, construction delays and cost-overruns that pushed the final bill to more than $34 billion.

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  All provincial employees in B.C. directed to change passwords

  Every provincial employee is receiving emails or memos directing them to change their passwords immediately, CTV News has learned.

• Vancouver may ban the sale of some butane lighters. Here's why that's being proposed.

  Vancouver council is set to vote on banning the sale of butane lighters that firefighters say are contributing to a "surge" of blazes causing injuries, death and damage in the city.

• Woman with a knife arrested at New Westminster post-secondary school

  Police in New Westminster, B.C., say they were called to a post-secondary school in the city when staff reported that a woman armed with a knife was inside the building.

• 'It's a people problem': Unsecured garbage bins continue to attract bears on Bear Mountain

  Shauna Owens-Krahn lives on Bear Mountain in Langford. Four times a day she takes her dogs for walks through the trails near her home and carries bear spray, just in case.

• Police arrest woman who praised Hamas attack at Vancouver protest

  Authorities have arrested a 44-year-old woman who praised last October's attack on Israel during a rally in downtown Vancouver.

• Vancouver sailor to lead Team Canada in first-ever women's America's Cup

  A team of women will be setting sail for the America's Cup in Barcelona this fall. It marks the first time women have been able to compete in the 173-year-old sailing competition.

• Person seriously injured while in Vancouver police custody, IIO notified more than 2 months later

  B.C.'s police watchdog is looking into an incident that led to one person being seriously injured while in Vancouver police custody, but says it was weeks before it was notified.

• Missing man found dead in Kelowna may have been murdered, police say

  Police believe a man who went missing from Kamloops and was later found dead in Kelowna was the victim of homicide.

• B.C's auditor general to review government's response to 2021 Lytton wildfire

  British Columbia's auditor general says his office is doing a review of the province's response to the 2021 wildfire that devastated the community of Lytton, B.C.

• B.C. man awarded $5,000 in damages in first-of-it-kind intimate image case

  In a first-of-its-kind case, a B.C. tribunal has ruled on a dispute involving the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, awarding damages and issuing orders that the photos be destroyed and taken offline.

• B.C. Lions sign veteran NFL defensive lineman Christian Covington

  Vancouver native Christian Covington signed with the B.C. Lions on Wednesday, after a nine-year NFL career.

• B.C. to provide $155.7 million to recruit and retain specialized health workers

  The British Columbia government is spending more money to recruit and retain health-science workers, especially those in rural and remote communities.

• 8-year sentence after guilty plea in 2022 Surrey shooting case

  A drug dealer who shot his customer in the chest over an unpaid debt in 2022 has been sentenced to eight years in prison for manslaughter.