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VICTORIA — British Columbia's government is tripling a program that offers free air conditioners to people with low incomes as forecasters say the province should prepare for hotter-than-normal temperatures in June.

VANCOUVER — The British Columbia Court of Appeal has cut damages awarded to a woman who was misdiagnosed with breast cancer and underwent an unnecessary mastectomy. It reduced the amount awarded to the woman by a B.C.

Mayor Leonard Krog says it’s an example of the increasingly poor behaviour seen at council meetings across the country

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The mayor of Kamloops will no longer speak for the city, after council passed a resolution stripping him of his position as its official spokesman.

RICHMOND, B.C. — Police in Metro Vancouver say a DNA match led to a man's arrest and conviction more than 22 years after he broke into a woman's home and sexually assaulted her.

Unregulated drug toxicity was the leading cause of unnatural death for children and youth younger than 19 from 2019 to 2023.

Richmond city councillor Kash Heed chalks up the premier's intervention on the matter to politicization of a health issue that ought to be treated equally across all communities.

CRANBROOK, B.C. — The Nature Conservancy of Canada says a new conservation area north of Cranbrook, B.C., will protect important bird habitat and preserve grasslands in the province's southeast.

Kati George-Jim is charged with obstructing police as they tried to arrest a person believed to have thrown water on the police chief at a memorial.

A police department in B.C. is leveraging advanced public safety technology to enhance community policing and reduce administrative work.