People in B.C. who use toxic illicit drugs and are at risk of overdosing or dying will soon be able to access alternative drugs, the minister of mental health and addictions announced Thursday.During a news conference, Sheila Malcolmson said the expanded safer supply...

Police in B.C. say they've responded to more than three dozen sudden deaths since an extreme heat wave took hold, with the danger expected to continue under unrelenting heat over the next several days.RCMP in Burnaby, B.C., said Tuesday its officers received 25 calls...

Police in B.C. say they've responded to more than three dozen sudden deaths since an extreme heat wave took hold, with the danger expected to continue under unrelenting heat over the next several days.RCMP in Burnaby, B.C., said Tuesday its officers received 25 calls...

Ever since Metro Vancouver resident Craig Spanza was infected with COVID-19 at work this past March, he has fought myriad long-term after-effects that include debilitating brain fog, exhaustion and shortness of breath.  But Spanza, 49, has also been dealing with a new diagnosis...

Katrina Lavery had a thirst for life.She loved people and animals and rarely argued with her mother — even during her teenage years. "[She was] the happiest camper every morning of every day that she woke up … pretty much a...

A formerly healthy 43-year-old father from Langley, B.C.  — who is in hospital recovering from complications following a rare blood clot — is warning others to watch for signs of trouble after receiving an AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine. Shaun Mulldoon and his wife Tara say that doctors confirmed to...

A national coalition of groups that support drug decriminalization say the plan put forward by Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart known as the "Vancouver Model" is deeply flawed because the people it is meant to help were never consulted as promised. "The mayor...

A British Columbia woman who learned second-hand that her breast implants had been linked to a rare form of cancer is demanding that the federal government mandate a system of personalized recall alerts for all items surgically implanted in people's bodies.To...

More Canadians have ended up in the hospital after using substances like opioids, alcohol and stimulants during the pandemic than they have in years past.In the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic (March to September 2020), as many as 81,000 Canadians required...