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  NEW | 'This is the best season I can recall': Fishers and wild salmon advocates cheer large returns to B.C. waters

  The summer of 2022 is shaping up to be a bumper season for both pink and sockeye salmon in British Columbia rivers, with one veteran Indigenous fisherman reporting the biggest catches of sockeye in decades.

  

• Multiple arrests after police allegedly assaulted amid tent city removal in Downtown Eastside

  Several police officers were allegedly assaulted Tuesday in the Downtown Eastside, amid heightened tensions in the neighbourhood as crews were dismantling a tent city.

  

• Passenger killed, taxi driver injured in shooting in Surrey strip mall parking lot

  One person is dead and a second is in hospital after someone opened fire on a taxi Tuesday afternoon in Surrey, Mounties say.

• B.C. Greens demanding watchdog report into Telus Health be made public

  The BC Green Party is asking the province to release a health-care watchdog's report into corporate care they believe may be creating a two-tiered system in the province.

• B.C. group calls for halt of pipeline construction to protect salmon

  Construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline at B.C.'s Coquihalla River started last week and Kate Tairyan has been watching it closely, devastated by what she says it's doing to the salmon.

• B.C. tenants face extra rent hikes to fund landlords' repairs – and they're permanent

  Tenants' advocates are urging the B.C. government to reconsider a policy that allows landlords to cover the costs of repairs and improvements on their properties using supplemental rent hikes.

• Keremeos Creek wildfire grows to 68 sq. km as crews fight fire with fire

  The Keremeos Creek wildfire has now scorched 6,838 hectares, according to the latest estimate from the B.C. Wildfire Service.

• B.C. police pursuit that ended with 2 suspects dead was linked to homicide investigation: RCMP

  A B.C. police pursuit that ended in a crash that killed two people has been linked to a homicide more than 300 kilometers away, according to an update from police.

• B.C. recorded 16 suspected heat deaths during recent heat wave, coroner says

  There were 16 suspected heat-related deaths recorded in British Columbia during the sweltering temperatures that began in late July and continued into early August, coroners revealed Tuesday.

• Photos, video released in case of B.C. murder suspect's prison break

  Mounties have release additional photos and video in the case of a murder suspect who escaped from a B.C. jail with the help of two accomplices last month.

• More than 7 dozen monkeypox cases confirmed in British Columbia: latest BCCDC data

  About one in 10 monkeypox cases in Canada have been confirmed in British Columbia, the latest data suggests.

• Underage employee sexually assaulted at Kamloops store, RCMP say

  Police are investigating allegations that an underage employee was sexually assaulted on multiple occasions at a business in Kamloops, B.C., and have asked anyone with information to come forward.

• Driver charged in connection to hit-and-run that injured 2 officers

  A driver is facing charges more than three years after a hit-and-run where two officers were injured.

• Greater Victoria teacher permanently banned from teaching after child porn conviction

  An elementary school teacher in the Greater Victoria School District had his teaching certificate permanently banned after being convicted of possessing child pornography.

• Tents removed from Vancouver homeless camp, starting with 'highest risk areas': city

  Tents and other structures are being removed from a stretch of East Hastings Street on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside starting Tuesday, the city confirmed.

• Hatchet-wielding suspect charged officer in New Westminster, police say

  Police have arrested a suspect who allegedly charged at an officer with a hatchet Monday in New Westminster.

• 'It was just planted on the log': Cougar encounter caught on camera in Campbell River, B.C.

  A Vancouver Island man has caught a rare cougar encounter on video.

• 2 seniors taken to hospital after break-in attempt near Richmond park

  Richmond Mounties are hoping to identify a suspect they say assaulted two seniors during a break-in attempt.

• Here's why UBC won't be getting a driverless shuttle service as planned

  A plan that's been years in the making to bring a driverless shuttle service to B.C.'s biggest university has been scrapped.

• Here's how B.C. crews are using controlled burns to fight wildfires

  With B.C.'s Keremeos Creek wildfire continuing to threaten homes and communities, wildfire crews are using controlled burns to contain the blaze.