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VANCOUVER — Repair crews have made progress restoring electricity to the hundreds of thousands of British Columbia homes that were blacked out during powerful weekend storms, but Environment sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ says snow and wind remain factors.

VANCOUVER — Tens of thousands of homes remained without power heading into Saturday evening after fierce storms with strong winds toppled trees and brought down power lines throughout British Columbia's south coast the night before.

The key provincial bureaucrat overseeing the Surrey police transition has quit, just over two weeks since Brenda Locke beat Doug McCallum for the Surrey mayoralty on a promise to keep the RCMP.

SQUAMISH, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — Conservation officers say they don't plan to capture a pair of bears that attacked two women Thursday in Squamish, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, saying the incidents appear defensive in nature. Sgt. Simon Gravel of the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Justice Catherine Wedge called Andrew James Seangio "a sexual predator."

VANCOUVER — A new report from the Directors Guild of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ suggests that roughly two-fifths of feature films and episodic television shot by its members were helmed by female directors.

VICTORIA — A tentative contract agreement has been reached between the British Columbia government and the union representing 22,000 health-science professionals.

Police are trying to find the shooting scene.

SURREY, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — RCMP in Surrey, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, say homicide detectives have taken over the case of a man seriously injured in the latest shooting in that city.

VANCOUVER — Drought levels across southern British Columbia have been scaled back for the first time in weeks as a series of powerful storms have drenched the region, including one due to deliver as much as 70 millimetres of rain before easing by nig