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• With ridership still well below pre-pandemic levels, TransLink looks for 'long-term revenue solutions'

  Metro Vancouver's public transit system will be dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic for years to come, according to recent funding and ridership announcements by TransLink.

  

• 'Now is the time': Premiers urge federal government to talk health-care dollars

  The federal government needs to come to the table to discuss more money for health care, Western Canada's premiers said at their annual meeting.

  

• Charges approved in 'very serious and traumatic' Surrey sexual assault involving break-in, confinement

  A man identified previously by police has now been charged in connection with what officers call a "very serious and traumatic" sexual assault in Surrey, B.C.

• Popular hike the Grouse Grind reopening Saturday morning

  The popular Grouse Grind Trail is set to reopen this weekend, following a colder-than-usual spring that kept conditions icy well into May.

• Double stabbing at Vancouver apartment sends women to hospital

  Vancouver police are investigating a double stabbing they say happened at an apartment building in Kitsilano Friday morning.

• Taking your dog or cat on a hike? Here's what the BC SPCA wants you to know

  British Columbians excited to take their dog on a local hike this summer are being reminded to prepare for the pets, just as they plan for themselves.

• Someone left an 'explosive device' on the side of the road in West Kelowna

  Mounties say a suspicious device found on the side of a road in West Kelowna Thursday was, in fact, an explosive.

• Firefighters frustrated after 'many cars' drive over supply hose during Vancouver fire

  Multiple drivers ran over a firefighting hose in South Vancouver on Friday, impacting an already tense effort to douse the flames at a two-alarm house fire.

• Crossword-loving grandma who thought she won $5,000 realized her lotto prize was actually a lot larger

  A recent lottery winner excitedly told her daughter she was suddenly $5,000 richer. She was wrong.

• Children located after alleged abduction from mother's home: Vancouver police

  Police in Vancouver say two children have been found safe the morning after they were allegedly abducted from their mother's home.

• B.C. speedboat driver arrested with 650kg of meth 'feared for his family's safety,' he told U.S. investigators

  New details are emerging after a 51-year-old Alberta man was arrested aboard a speedboat that U.S. authorities say was carrying 650 kilograms of methamphetamine between Washington state and British Columbia.

• More sex-related charges against B.C. man who fled with daughters to Ontario

  A British Columbia man who was in the news earlier this year when he fled his hometown of Salmon Arm, taking his two daughters with him, is facing more charges related to sex crimes.

• Environment Canada warns of heavy rain for parts of B.C., flood watch posted

  Environment Canada warns prolonged rains will drench parts of northern B.C. over the weekend, raising the potential for localized flooding.

• Caught-on-cam arson: Police looking for someone with burns on face, hands who fled scene on scooter

  Police say they're looking for a suspect who was likely burned when they set fire to a vehicle on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, then used an electric scooter as a getaway vehicle.

• Suspicious death: Homicide investigation underway after body found in Surrey park

  Homicide investigators have been deployed to Surrey after a body was found in Newton.

• For sale in Vancouver: $14M waterfront house that 'shares a wall' with neighbouring home

  Would you pay nearly $14 million to share a wall with your neighbours?

• 2 senior pedestrians with life-threatening injuries after serious collision: Abbotsford police

  Two senior pedestrians were taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries Thursday afternoon after a crash in Abbotsford, local police say.

• B.C. pledges $750K to expand access to free menstrual products

  The British Columbia government says it is providing $750,000 to expand access to free menstrual products for people who need them and to help the United Way establish a task force to consider how to end “period poverty.”

• Researchers say new southern resident orca calf is female as full pod returns to B.C. waters

  A full pod of southern resident killer whales has returned to the waters of British Columbia, where researchers have determined that a new baby in the group is a female.

• Fewer than half of COVID-19 deaths reported since B.C. changed counting methods were caused by the disease

  Data released Thursday by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control provides some insight into just how much overcounting of COVID-19 deaths the switch to "30-day, all-cause mortality" has created.