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Coast guard called in as diesel spill closes Richmond beaches

Beaches at Richmond's Garry Point Park are closed after the Canadian Coast Guard investigated and try to clean up a recent diesel spill.

This photo posted to social media shows a diesel spill in Richmond's Steveston Harbour (Credit: Twitter/StevestonShips)

B.C. lawyer sentenced to 22 months for forging documents including police reports, doctors' notes

A B.C. lawyer has been sentenced to 22 months in jail after pleading guilty to forging documents that he submitted to Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board over a period of nearly 10 years

FILE - A Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) patch is seen on an officer in Calgary, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. (Jeff McIntosh/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

High-risk sex offender back in custody: Vancouver police

A high-risk sex offender who went missing soon after being released from prison to a halfway house in Vancouver is back in custody, police said Saturday.

Tony Okanase, 39, was released from Mountain Institution – a medium-security federal prison in Agassiz – and reported to the halfway house, according to the Vancouver Police Department. (VPD)

Ukrainian refugee families find friendship, support through B.C. reading club

Ukrainian refugee families in B.C. are being brought together through a specially formed reading club -- and their bond goes beyond books.

140 lightning-caused wildfires detected in B.C. over last 3 days, service says

Lightning has sparked more than 100 new wildfires in British Columbia since Wednesday, as thunderstorms rolled through the provincial Interior.

Man charged in apparently random attack on Chinatown security guard: VPD

A man has been charged with the assault of a "beloved Chinatown security guard" on Friday, according to the Vancouver Police Department.

Police identify victim, say targeted shooting in Maple Ridge related to drugs, but not gangs

Homicide investigators have publicly identified the man shot and killed in Maple Ridge on Friday in hopes of identifying further "witnesses and associates" of the victim.

'Pollution sniffing' van hits the streets in Metro Vancouver

A new mobile lab is helping researchers at UBC to map levels of air pollution in Metro Vancouver in real time, monitor how they change, and measure which locations are most impacted.

Surrey South byelection set for Sept. 10

The B.C. government has called a byelection for the Surrey South seat left vacant this spring when former Liberal MLA Stephanie Cadieux was appointed Canada's chief accessibility officer.

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Agent: Rushdie off ventilator and talking, day after attack

'The Satanic Verses' author Salman Rushdie was taken off a ventilator and able to talk Saturday, a day after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New York.

This still image from video shows a man, at left, being escorted from the stage as people tend to author Salman Rushdie, centre right, at the Chautauqua Institution, in Chautauqua, N.Y., Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo)

Arizona parents arrested trying to get in locked-down school

Police arrested three Arizona parents, shocking two of them with stun guns, as they tried to force their way into a school that police locked down Friday after an armed man was seen trying to get on campus, authorities said.

Parent of child with rare form of epilepsy distressed over N.S. ER closures

Kristen Hayes lives close to the hospital in Yarmouth, N.S., but she says that twice in the past month, her son, who has a rare form of epilepsy, has been taken by ambulance to the emergency room there, only to be left waiting.

Feds quietly change rules to allow one-time ArriveCAN exemption at land border crossings

The Canada Border Services Agency is temporarily allowing fully vaccinated travellers a one-time exemption to not be penalized if they were unaware of the health documents required through ArriveCAN.

Fire at Coptic church in Cairo kills 41, hurts 14

A fire ripped through a church in a densely populated neighbourhood of the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Sunday, leaving at least 41 dead and injuring 14, the country's Coptic Church said.