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COVID-19 exposure alerts have been issued for nine more flights through B.C. The six domestic and three international flights were added to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control’s online list of public exposures this week.

The $242 million in federal funding earmarked for B.C.’s return to in-class instruction should be used to decrease class sizes and promote physical distancing, according to the B.C. Teachers Federation (BCTF). That funding is B.C.

Just because you can’t find a city bylaw doesn’t mean you can ignore it.

Health officials are stressing that it’s safe to re-open schools next week, even though kids won’t be sitting two metres apart and despite a recent rise in daily cases of COVID-19 being reported. But Dr.

With World Suicide Prevention Day coming up Sept. 10, the Crisis Centre of B.C. is reminding people that support is as close as a phone call - or a text

“This is a very encouraging trend."

Man who took video of the incident wants bear saved, too

Two men captured on security video chasing a Yorkshire terrier around a Burnaby yard and then taking off with her were not the dognappers they appeared to be, according to Burnaby RCMP.

Seven Burnaby residents have now died in a COVID-19 outbreak at a local care home. New Vista Care Home updated the families of residents in a Sept. 1 email that was shared with the NOW .

No level of government is absolved, and significant work remains to be done to mitigate the deadly overdose crisis, according to a longtime advocate.