B.C. News

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SEATTLE — A man accused of torturing a woman to death but found too mentally ill for trial was on the loose Thursday after crawling out a window in a locked, lower-security unit of a Washington state psychiatric hospital already facing federal scruti

New data from B.C.’s Seniors Advocate shows residents in the majority of care homes in the province are still being prescribed anti-depressants and anti-psychotics without having a diagnosis for those ailments. It has been a priority in B.C.

Osoyoos police say they are “dumbfounded” by the behaviour of hockey parents involved in a drunken brawl at a youth tournament Saturday.

Police are investigating after a bullet hole was discovered in a window of the Surrey RCMP’s Guildford station.

The Vancouver woman who was hospitalized March 31 after a 20-day-hunger strike against the Site C dam has ended her fast, but says her fight against the $8.8-billion project isn’t over.

The Panamanian company Mossack Fonseca, which is at the centre of a global furor over a massive document leak revealing how thousands of people and entities use offshore tax havens, had a foray into British Columbia in the late 1990s, The Vancouver S

VANCOUVER — B.C.’s 42,000 nurses are poised to vote on a tentative five-year contract with the Health Employers Association of B.C. that promises higher pay and better working conditions, including more protection against assaults and violence. B.C.

RICHMOND — A woman who gained notoriety for her extensive record of distracted-driving convictions across the Lower Mainland has been prohibited from operating a motor vehicle in B.C.

A First Nations band is planning to start luring tourists this summer to the northern B.C. ghost town where Donald Trump’s pioneering grandfather once ran a brothel. The Carcross Tagish First Nation, whose territory straddles the B.C.