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VICTORIA — Here are highlights from the B.C. budget tabled Tuesday: — The government is earmarking $2.1 billion to fund disaster recovery efforts and future response to the threats from wildfires, floods and heat waves.

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and the federal government have joined forces to build 80 affordable housing units across two sites at xwemelch'stn in North Vancouver and Squamish. The Nation currently has around 1,000 people on its housing wait-list.

It was able to walk away on its own.

But some experts warn that such incentives may have unintended consequences

VICTORIA — B.C. Finance Minister Selina Robinson says making sure communities have the resources they need to deal with the effects of climate change will be a focal point of her budget on Tuesday.

KEREMEOS, B.C. — Police say homicide investigators have been called after a man was found dead Sunday night in Keremeos, B.C.

Ever wonder what creatures live in the Pacific Northwest waters?

WHISTLER, B.C. — The union representing transit workers in several communities along British Columbia's Sea-to-Sky corridor says contract negotiations are set to resume, more than three weeks after a strike began.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government is considering taking away some of the permit powers municipal governments have to approve housing construction in an effort to get more homes built in the province, the housing minister says.

Vancouver Police say they are investigating the shooting deaths of two women whose bodies were found Sunday morning in a vehicle on the west side of the city. They say in a news release that the bodies were discovered just after 8 a.m.