B.C. News

Naloxone, which can reverse drug overdoses, is making its way into the hands of drug users, their friends and families across B.C. Police, health authorities and advocates are making sure drug users know about fentanyl’s dangers. But B.C.

NEW WESTMINSTER — The Crown is seeking a six- to eight-year prison sentence for former Radio India boss Maninder Gill, who shot and injured a man outside a Sikh temple in Surrey nearly six years ago.

A Surrey man alleged by Indian officials to be a terrorist mastermind says he is completely innocent and shocked at reports linking him to a 2007 bombing in Punjab.

On a sunny May morning in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, it takes just eight minutes to find a fentanyl dealer. “Alan,” who speaks on the condition his real name not be reported, says he has customers who seek it exclusively.

Nearly three months have passed since Site C opponents packed up their camp at the historic Rocky Mountain Fort site on the banks of the Peace River, which blocked construction on the controversial dam for 62 days. While the camp has gone away, B.C.

Opioid overdose will kill 800 people in B.C. this year if the death toll continues at its current rate. In the first three months of 2016, fentanyl was detected in half of 200 opioid-overdose deaths.

1,177 kilometre pipeline would carry diluted bitumen from Alberta's oilsands through northern B.C.

A fire that destroyed a White Rock condominium complex under construction May 15 and forced the evacuation of another building was deliberately set, RCMP said Wednesday.

Some advocates and volunteers who work on and around Whalley’s “Strip” are concerned about a recent increase in bylaw enforcement in the area, which is forcing homeless people off the street and into the surrounding neighbourhood.

Andrea Stucchi counts her blessings.