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  Man seriously injured in targeted shooting in North Vancouver

  Mounties say a man in his 50s is in serious but stable condition after a targeted shooting in North Vancouver.

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  B.C. Interior wildfires show increased activity, triggering evacuation alert

  A growing cluster of out-of-control wildfires in the British Columbia Interior has forced officials to place residents in the area under an evacuation alert.

• Police release new details in fatal hit-and-run investigation in Merritt, B.C.

  Police have released new details in a fatal hit-and-run crash in the B.C. Interior last month, expanding the timeline of when they believe the man was struck by the still unidentified vehicle.

• Murder, aggravated assault charges laid in Vancouver stranger attacks

  Charges of murder and aggravated assault in a pair of brutal stranger attacks in downtown Vancouver were approved Thursday, one day after the rush-hour rampage left one man dead and another with a severed hand.

• Driver ticketed after striking mother, baby in B.C. crosswalk

  A 24-year-old driver has been ticketed for driving without due care and attention after striking a mother and her baby in a pedestrian crosswalk near Victoria.

• Watchdog calls for B.C. to boost oversight of old-growth forest on Quadra Island

  British Columbia's independent forest-practices watchdog says there's a risk that a coastal island won't have enough old-growth trees in the future due to inadequate monitoring of harvesting.

• Federal government's new hybrid work rules begin Monday: Here's what you need to know

  Starting Monday, Sept. 9, federal employees in the core public administration will be required to be in the office a minimum of three days a week, and executives will need to be on-site a minimum of four days a week.

• Police investigating body found after fire in Comox, B.C.

  Major crime detectives are investigating after firefighters discovered human remains at the scene of a house fire in Comox, B.C.

• B.C. Greens make election pledge for free transit, doubling of bus numbers

  B.C. Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau has announced an election policy to make all public transit in the province free.

• BC Conservatives decry 'lawlessness' after gruesome Vancouver stranger attacks

  After two grisly stranger attacks in downtown Vancouver, members of the BC Conservatives were quick to decry the crimes as the most recent example of the lawlessness and violence plaguing the city – directly contradicting statistics and assurances to the contrary provided by the chief of police.

• Teens charged after 'senseless and unprovoked' stabbing in New Westminster, B.C.

  Two teenagers have been charged in connection with a stabbing that left a man with major abdominal trauma in New Westminster, B.C.

• B.C. boy writes emotional song for grandfather he never met

  If you wanted Chase Varnes to beam as a baby, all you had to so what give him some Tupperware to bang on.

• 'Unprovoked' attacks in Vancouver leave man dead, another with severed hand

  A pair of stranger attacks in downtown Vancouver left one man dead and another with a severed hand on Wednesday morning.

• Elephant seals used deep sea sonar equipment as 'dinner bell': B.C. researchers

  Scientists say new research shows how northern elephant seals used sonar from a deep sea research facility off the British Columbia coast like a "dinner bell" as they hunted for prey.

• Veteran BC United legislators Mike Bernier and Tom Shypitka to run as Independents

  A pair of BC United legislators have announced they are running as Independents in next month's provincial election after the collapse of the Official Opposition's campaign last week.

• Union 'devastated' by B.C. mill closures, says Canfor should lose tenures

  British Columbia's forests minister says the province will fight against 'unfair duties and stand up for forestry workers' after Canfor Corp. announced the closure of two northern B.C. sawmills, partly blaming "punitive" U.S. tariffs imposed last month.

• Accused's actions after Vancouver double-murder should leave no doubt as to guilt, Crown argues

  With one last chance to address the jury, Crown prosecutors argued that Kane Carter's actions after two people were killed in Vancouver should leave them with no doubt he was the person who fired the fatal gunshots.

• Jagmeet Singh pulls NDP out of deal with Trudeau Liberals, takes aim at Poilievre Conservatives

  NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has pulled his party out of the supply-and-confidence agreement that had been helping keep Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's minority Liberals in power.

• B.C. police seek witnesses after man killed, another injured in crash

  Mounties in northern British Columbia are looking for witnesses after a 35-year-old man was killed and another was injured in a single-vehicle crash last week.

• B.C. man jailed 10 months after pleading guilty to child porn charge

  A man from New Westminster, B.C., has been sentenced to 10 months behind bars after pleading guilty to child pornography possession.