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VANCOUVER — It's flying season for the Japanese beetle, which has prompted expanded restrictions on soil and plants in Vancouver that cover much of the city.

Victim dies from injuries suffered in June 19 incident at 300-block Nicholson Street South home

Only one person has ever swam the full 106 kilometres across Okanagan Lake.

VANCOUVER — Traffic was moving again as crews worked quickly to corral a brush fire that closed a major Vancouver-area highway for hours.

“Believe me, the love here is only one way. They don’t like us and that’s fine. That’s the way it should be.”

“Oak Bay may be the death cap capital of Canada.”

“He was frightened. He reacted quickly.”

So far this year, wildfires in Canada have burned an area more than double the size of Vancouver Island. The record comes just as the core season begins.

Vancouver's development permit board has approved a controversial nine-storey residential tower in the heart of Chinatown that supporters hope will reinvigorate the neighbourhood but which critics see as a symbol of gentrification that fails to refle

British Columbia's Ministry of Education went ahead with plans to do away with letter grades from kindergarten to Grade 9 despite its own public consultation showing the majority of teachers, students and parents didn't like the idea.