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A Vancouver family known for its philanthropy is making a $20 million donation to a British Columbia substance use treatment centre in memory of their adult son and brother who died of an opioid overdose.

Almost daily, tennis players in Stanley Park have a front-row seat as an eagle swoops in to snatch a heron chick from its nest.

Nightingale was head of Vancouver’s aquarium from 1993 to 2018, expanding its science, research and conservation programs.

Cross-border shopping buses filled with Chinese and Korean Canadian consumers were once ubiquitous outside Washington state malls, but they have all-but disappeared from the commercial landscape, dealing a heavy blow to border-town businesses.

TUMBLER RIDGE, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — Firefighters took advantage of favourable weather conditions Saturday to make headway on an out-of-control wildfire that forced the evacuation of the northeast British Columbia community of Tumbler Ridge.

VANCOUVER — An "incredibly intense" wildfire is just a few kilometres away from the British Columbia community of Tumbler Ridge, fire officials said Friday.

The BC River Forecast Centre says this year is such an outlier when compared to historical data.

VICTORIA — British Columbia will soon be the first jurisdiction in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ to implement a licensing requirement for asbestos abatement contractors. The Labour Ministry says workers must be licensed by Jan. 1.

VANCOUVER — An encroaching wildfire set off an immediate evacuation order Thursday for residents of the British Columbia District of Tumbler Ridge, a community of 2,400 people in northeastern sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ The district said in a message issued by the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

CHILLIWACK, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — A bus carrying elementary school students on a field trip has caught fire on a road in Chilliwack, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, spreading to a nearby structure and cutting power to the area before being extinguished.