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• Vehicle upside down in Fraser River after driver goes through concrete barriers

  A vehicle ended up in the Fraser River Wednesday afternoon after the driver went through some concrete barriers.

  

• Montreal has 17 suspected monkeypox cases; officials say it's 'not highly contagious' or severe

  Montreal Public Health said they're asking health workers to be alert for monkeypox cases but said the illness is also not extremely contagious and is the milder of two strains. There are 17 suspected cases in the Montreal area.

  

• B.C. wildfire investigation: Police ask for dash-cam video to determine cause of blaze near Highway 1

  B.C. Mounties are investigating the cause of a wildfire that broke out near Highway 1 west of Ashcroft earlier this week.

• 'Cougar' spotted in Vancouver neighbourhood was actually a large house cat: police

  Police were called to a Vancouver neighbourhood for reports of a cougar sighting in the area. What they found was something else.

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  NEW | Expert says N.B. police officer who fatally shot Chantel Moore was right to use lethal force

  An expert in Canadian policing says the New Brunswick officer who killed a 26-year-old Indigenous woman during a wellness check two years ago was following police training.

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  NEW | BC Hydro sending repair crews to Vancouver Island as thousands still without power after storm

  BC Hydro is sending repair crews to Vancouver Island to restore power to thousands of people who remain in the dark after Wednesday's windstorm.

• With record gas prices in B.C., is it worth going to the U.S. to fill your tank?

  Like B.C., Washington state is seeing record-high gas prices. But it's significantly cheaper to fuel up in Blaine than just across the border in Surrey.

• 'Rather unexpected' sale: Tsawwassen Mills mall has a new owner

  A Metro Vancouver mall on First Nations land has a new owner, a commercial real estate and retail investment company with assets in Southeast Asia.

• A human bone was found near Kamloops airport in March, police now know who it belonged to

  A human bone found in Kamloops in late March has been identified as belonging to a 22-year-old man who went missing earlier that month.

• B.C. small businesses face cost challenges as national inflation rate hits 31-year high

  The rising cost of food, shelter, and other expenses pushed Canada's inflation rate to a 31-year high last month. People are paying a lot more for many basic needs than they were last year at this time, and small businesses are also struggling to manage higher prices for the goods they need to keep going.

• Do you recognize these men? Burnaby RCMP seek suspects in break-ins, mail thefts

  Mounties in Burnaby are appealing for help identifying two suspects who they say broke into two complexes and cleared out all of the residents' mail.

• SFU researcher develops new tech-savvy search and rescue system

  PhD student Brennan Jones wants to lend a helping hand to the B.C. search and rescue volunteers he calls heroes.

• 'Busiest wedding season since the '80s': B.C. industry booming due to pent-up pandemic demand

  Wedding season is back and with the backlog of postponed weddings due to the pandemic, B.C. operators say it's busier than it's been in decades.

• Museum controversy continues to dominate B.C. politics

  For a third day, Opposition leader Kevin Falcon hammered John Horgan's government for a Royal B.C. Museum project that will take eight years and cost taxpayers $789 million.

• B.C. mom who suffocated 8-year-old daughter loses appeal of sentence

  A B.C. woman who was convicted of killing her eight-year-old daughter by suffocating her with a plastic bag has lost her bid to have her sentence reduced, according to a decision from the B.C. Court of Appeal.

• JetBlue nixes planned nonstop flights between Vancouver and Boston

  JetBlue was scheduled to begin offering flights between Vancouver and Boston next month, but has decided to cancel that route amid "ongoing refinements" to the airline's summer schedule.

• Tk'emlups te Secwepemc prepare to mark one year since confirmation of evidence of unmarked graves

  It has been almost exactly one year since the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc confirmed evidence of what elders and residential school survivors had been saying for years about missing children being buried on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

• Surrey pawnshop owner charged with trafficking stolen property

  The owner of a pawnshop in Surrey is facing eight criminal charges after an investigation into trafficking of stolen property, according to police.

• Metro Vancouver Transit Police officer charged with dangerous driving causing bodily harm in 2020 incident

  A Metro Vancouver Transit Police officer has been charged with dangerous driving causing bodily harm, the BC Prosecution Service announced Wednesday.

• Caught on cam: Trees fall on Nanaimo home amid B.C. windstorm

  A pair of tall trees toppled onto a Nanaimo, B.C., home Wednesday as a windstorm wreaked havoc on Vancouver Island.