For decades, water fluoridation has played a key role in improving the oral health of North Americans, experts say, but the practice is coming under scrutiny in some communities as opponents gain new prominence in the U.S., pointing to research that cautions about the risks of exposure to the mineral in high doses.
B.C.’s police oversight agency has been called in to investigate after a woman on Vancouver Island suffered a serious injury while being arrested Friday.
The U.S. Postal Service has temporarily suspended accepting mail headed to Canada due to the strike by Canada Post workers.
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Rising sea levels could prove catastrophic for Vancouver International Airport, according to a new report from the Senate of Canada looking at the risks climate change poses to critical infrastructure across the country.
A B.C. man whose neighbours lopped the tops off of four of his bamboo plants has been awarded $1,000 in damages by the province’s Civil Resolution Tribunal.
Greater Victoria has a host of yuletide festivities this weekend for residents ready to kick off the holiday season.
The iconic bronze statues of laughing men in Vancouver’s West End have been decked out with themed friendship bracelets ahead of another icon’s arrival in the city.
A carjacking suspect was shot by Vancouver police early Sunday morning, prompting an investigation by the provincial watchdog.
A winter storm has dumped heavy snow over parts of central and northern British Columbia, and freezing rain is in the forecast as temperatures start to rise.
A large swarm of California sea lions have converged in the waters near Vancouver’s Jericho and Locarno beaches.
The chief of a First Nation in central British Columbia says potential unmarked graves have been identified at the site of the former Lejac Indian Residential School after nearly two years of geophysical survey work.
It’s not unusual to find Lesley Carlberg out and about wearing a tutu.
Whenever Sophia Vaillant would go on family road trips as a kid, she’d inevitably play songs by the same singer.
If you ask Yi Zhao why he’s been pointing his camera at the sky for so long, his answer will be simple.
Sandra Kroek and her grandson Remington spent 200 hours painting a massive Star Wars mural together.
After driving near the water that winter day, Brian Lavery thought he saw a dog splashing in the waves – then realized it was way too cold for that.
Since she was a little girl, Chizara Frank-Imoh has wanted to be an engineer. But she says building community is even better.
When he first moved to his urban neighbourhood, Barry Devonald was surprised to be welcomed by a whole flock of new neighbours.
As Don Dixon flips through his photo album filled with all sorts of serious things, the 102-year-old is proving to be quite silly.
For as long as Adam Davies can recall, he’s had just one dream.
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The holiday season is just around the corner. It’s a time for joy and togetherness, but if we have to simplify the season down to two things, they’re really about spending time with loved ones and embracing all-things cozy.
Andrea Arnold is used to having to slow down to let deer cross the road in her Northern B.C. community. But this weekend she saw something that made her pull over and snap a photo.
It had been an ordinary Friday evening, driving to meet family for dinner, when Lawrence Bau witnessed something in the night sky unlike anything he had seen before.
A corporal in the Canadian Army was fined $2,000 and given a severe reprimand for wearing service medals he didn't earn during a Remembrance Day ceremony in Alberta two years ago.
