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  Section of Highway 99 closing overnight Sunday

  A section of Highway 99 will be closed overnight, officials announced Sunday.

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  Strike at Cascadia Liquor stores on Vancouver Island over, union says

  Striking employees at three Greater Victoria liquor stores will be returning to work after six weeks on the picket line, the union representing the workers announced Sunday.

• B.C.'s first health centre catering to francophone community to open in the fall

  A new health centre dedicated to serving British Columbia's French-language speakers will open its doors this fall in Vancouver.

• Climate disasters require emergency plans for dialysis patients, experts say

  When catastrophic floods severed a bridge and washed away or closed highways in southern British Columbia, Mitchell Dyck and other patients needing regular life-saving dialysis had to be flown to hospital by helicopter.

• BC Lions win home opener

  The B.C. Lions exhaled on Saturday. Expectations for the team were high coming into the CFL season and last week's loss to the Toronto Argonauts took many onlookers by surprise.

• 'Severe thunderstorms can produce tornadoes' Environment Canada says as funnel clouds spotted in Fraser Valley

  Weather watchers took in some rare sights Saturday as storms brought an array of meteorological phenomena to the Lower Mainland.

• Global study ranks two Canadian cities high on list of most expensive places to buy a home

  As Canadians continue to struggle with the extremely high cost of buying a home in some of the country’s major urban centres, a new global report is underscoring just how expensive some of those markets are.

• Crews recover body of missing boater in Mission, B.C.

  Search and rescue crews recovered the body of a boater who was missing and presumed dead Saturday in Mission, B.C.

• One taken to hospital after fire at abandoned townhouse complex in South Vancouver

  There were people living inside an abandoned townhouse complex in South Vancouver when a fire broke out Saturday morning, firefighters say.

• Witnesses report pea-sized hail as storm hits parts of B.C.'s south coast

  Environment Canada says storms tracking over British Columbia's south coast brought hail to the region today, with one witness reporting pellets the size of large peas blanketing his local streets.

• Images released of suspect who allegedly hit Victoria mall employee in the face with skateboard

  Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers has released surveillance photos and is appealing to the public to help identify a man who allegedly assaulted a security guard with a skateboard.

• Environment Canada issues rainfall warnings for parts of northeastern B.C.

  Parts of northeastern British Columbia are under rainfall warnings as a narrow band of intense storms moves through the area.

• B.C. property manager suspended 1 year, fined $30K for misconduct

  A B.C. property manager who failed to collect a tenant's security deposit, wrote the wrong address on a tenancy agreement and failed to adequately enforce the property owners' desire to prohibit pets and smoking has been disciplined by the provincial real estate regulator.

• Motorcyclist dies in crash on Hwy 3: B.C. RCMP

  A motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a transport truck on Highway 3 in B.C.’s southern Interior on Thursday, according to authorities.