Leah Rowntree was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer in April, shortly before B.C. announced it would send patients like her to Bellingham, Washington for radiation therapy. On Tuesday, Rowntree had her first radiation treatment. But she chose to pay for it in Houston, Texas, not trusting the B.C. system to get her into treatment in the province—or in Bellingham—in time.
Animal welfare workers in British Columbia will be recommending animal cruelty charges after 44 neglected dogs and cats were seized from a derelict and garbage-filled home on a small, southern Gulf Island near Nanaimo.
The Vancouver Canucks might be having a winning season, but when Stacey Donison heard her husband shouting joyfully from the kitchen, it had nothing to do with the hockey game he was watching.
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A fog advisory was reissued for much of B.C.’s South Coast and Vancouver Island Tuesday afternoon, with Environment Canada warning of "near-zero visibility" throughout the region.
British Columbia's auditor general is repeating himself over concerns about the way the provincial government keeps its books, just as the Ministry of Finance's quarterly report projects a $5.6-billion deficit.
British Columbia's economy is forecast to grow one per cent in 2023, a drop from the 1.2 per cent predicted earlier by the Ministry of Finance.
A small plane crash in rural B.C. near the Alberta border has claimed the life of a local pilot, according to RCMP.
A Saskatchewan drug dealer who was serving a lengthy sentence for attempted murder in a maximum security prison in B.C.'s Fraser Valley has died.
When Ronnie Butcher is not playing bingo with a friend, the 98-year-old is telling jokes she declines to repeat.
Two police officers who mistook an innocent Surrey, B.C., resident for a suspect, knocked him to the ground and unleashed a police dog on him during a chase had a "reasonable basis" for doing so, and will not face charges, prosecutors have decided.
A campaign to buy six pieces of medical imaging equipment for Greater Victoria hospitals is gaining momentum after a long-standing gala in support of the Victoria Hospitals Foundation raised a record $2.5 million.
When Ronnie Butcher is not playing bingo with a friend, the 98-year-old is telling jokes she declines to repeat.
You just might find that although life has unfolded differently than you planned — it’s ended up feeling even better than you could have imagined.
If you ask Jamie-Lynn Frommelt what she wants to be when she grows up, the seven-year-old will answer with a smile.
Alone on a log, an otter seems to be having one of those days. Walking along the beach, Winnie Tse definitely is.
There's a big lesson from a young person about finding the courage to vanquish the Worry Monster in all of us.
When he first arrived at the Canadian War Cemetery near Juno Beach, Brad Palin was overwhelmed seeing more than 2,000 graves.
There is also no doubt Justin Hewitt is grateful for how his father inspired him to fill his heart with song again.
Ever since she was a little girl, Kristin Piche dreamed of diving underwater and being a marine biologist. But Kristin also grew up with increasingly severe hearing loss.
For decades, Deborah Biggs's days unfolded in unremarkable ways. But then she found she had time for previously unexpressed creativity.
A B.C. couple who claimed a truckload of firewood they paid $3,800 for turned out to be "unusable" has been awarded a refund at the province's small claims tribunal.
A cat named Mucky has been reunited with his Vancouver Island family after being missing since May.
The carbon tax – and a private note that fell into the wrong hands – dominated Question Period in the B.C. legislature Thursday.
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