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Future of pot tasting?
Consumers can trust what varieties of wine taste like regardless of the store they buy it from, and they could soon have similar expectations for strains of...
Wearable overdose detector
A group of students at the University of British Columbia have turned to technology in an effort to address the opioid crisis by creating a wearable device they...
Missing teen with man, 53
A 16-year-old missing girl may be in Lower Mainland with a 53-year-old man, according to RCMP. Makayla Chang was last seen in Nanaimo on March 17. RCMP say she...
Rockslide blocking hwy
UPDATE: 5:30 p.m. Highway 1 will remain closed overnight on Wednesday after rock scaling could no be completed. Emil Anderson said the rock scaling will resume...
Mother's ashes stolen
A Surrey man is pleading for the return of his mother’s ashes after they were stolen. RCMP say the ashes were stolen between 9 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Friday,...
Chance for softwood deal
B.C.'s softwood lumber envoy says there's a slight opportunity to negotiate a new agreement between Canada and the United States, but if a deal...
Two-step billing not unfair
The B.C. Utilities Commission has released a report on two-step billing for electrical utilities used by FortisBC and BC Hydro. The system, which charges an...
Charge after hiker shot
UPDATE: 3:10 p.m. A man has been charged with attempted murder after shooting a hiker in the face and arm last week on a forest service road in Chilliwack, RCMP...
Slide halts Amtrak service
UPDATE: 3:05 p.m. Track owner BNSF Railway says a slide that has halted Amtrak service between Seattle and Vancouver happened north of White Rock early...
Sky's the limit for skier
Chris Pawlitsky has reached his goal for the 2016-17 season: skiing one million feet of lift accessed vertical at Revelstoke Mountain Resort. It was a feat that...
Pharmacies want your DNA
If your pharmacist asks you to spit into a tube next time you pick up a prescription, don’t be alarmed. Several Okanagan pharmacies are taking part in a...
15 deer culled, butchered
The City of Cranbrook in southeastern B.C. says it destroyed 15 habituated deer during a cull carried out in January and early February. A city news release...
Money back from the gov't
Employers may soon be getting money back from WorkSafeBC. The province has announced it plans to amend the Workers Compensation Act to establish a new policy...
Medallist on the mend
The brother of injured Canadian snowboarding star Mark McMorris says the Olympic medallist is steadily improving in hospital following an accident in B.C.'s...
Deadly drunk faces 12 years
A sentencing hearing is expected to wrap up today for a man who pleaded guilty to driving drunk and killing three people on a British Columbia highway. Crown...
Mutilated calf in ditch
The discovery of a rotting and mutilated calf carcass in a water-filled ditch east of Vancouver is the latest such case to raise concerns for the BC Dairy...
Record rain soaks city
They don't call it the Wet Coast for nothing. Vancouver was soaked by record rainfall Tuesday, causing localized flooding throughout the region. Vancouver...
Landslide evacuation lifted
Threats of a landslide have subsided in a tiny British Columbia community where four people died in 2012 after a wave of mud and trees swept down a creek. An...
Avalanche control on Hwy 1
Highway 1 will be closed in both directions Wednesday afternoon for avalanche control. The route will be closed from West Boundary of Glacier National Park to...
2 head-on crashes, 2 dead
Separate head-on crashes in British Columbia between cars and tractor-trailers claimed two lives in as many days. A 40-year-old Surrey man was killed early...