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Vancouver
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A grieving family is outraged that the man accused in a double killing in Chilliwack last week is being released on bail.
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A team leader at Tomahawk Ventures, a company contracted by the province to fight forest fires, is remembering four colleagues who died when their pickup truck crashed into a semi truck on the Trans-Canada Highway near Kamloops early Tuesday morning.
B.C.'s tech upgrades: Next-Gen 911 and artificial intelligence at city hall
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VANCOUVER ISLAND
Lack of affordable, available housing blamed for below-average nursing program enrolment
A lack of affordable and available housing in the capital region is being blamed for keeping people away who are desperately needed in order to correct the ailing health-care system.
Nanaimo parents awarded $328K for loss of support after teen killed in crosswalk
The parents of a Nanaimo teenager who was struck in a crosswalk and later died in hospital have been awarded $327,635 after a B.C. Supreme Court judge recognized the Korean practice of hyodo, in which a child is expected to provide financial and domestic support to their parents.
Small plane crash injures 2 on Vancouver Island
Two people were airlifted to hospital with minor injuries after their small plane crashed Wednesday morning on northern Vancouver Island. A spokesperson for the Transportation Safety Board of Canada tells CTV News the privately owned de Havilland Beaver aircraft "collided with the terrain" approximately 18 kilometres southwest of Campbell River.
Inside CTV News Vancouver
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After dealing with cancer, raging wildfire and death, B.C. couple's wedding carries on with help from regional district
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SFU football program plans remain uncertain after report released
An independent special adviser has found that Simon Fraser University's varsity football program would have the potential to operate in Canada but not south of the border.