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VANCOUVER — Dozens of people have been left without a home after an apparent explosion sparked a fire between two buildings in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

As part of a Glacier Media series on how businesses are overcoming labour shortages, supply chain breaks, inflation and other challenges, a commercial builder explains his strategy

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VANCOUVER — Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt, B.C., is the latest emergency room in the province to shut its doors due to lack of staff, joining a series of similar interruptions in service in British Columbia's Interior.

SURREY, B.C. — The candidate nomination period for the upcoming provincial byelection in Surrey South has closed. Elections BC says there are a total of five candidates, each representing one of the five registered political parties.

VICTORIA — A British Columbia MLA says he holds no animosity toward the BC Liberal Party or its leader after being ousted from its caucus earlier this week. John Rustad, who represents Nechako Lakes in central B.C.

Five women who all had children with a West Vancouver playboy prior to his gruesome killing testified during an original trial. The estate will now be split among the man's children.

Five entrepreneurs aim to disrupt B.C.'s wine-cooler market with an innovative product they call SakeBomb – a range of flavoured coolers made with the rice wine, or sake.

Vancouver police are investigating what they call a series of violent stranger assaults in the city's Fairview neighbourhood and trying to establish if the incidents are related.

The drugs involved in the case of Campbell River's Andrew Miguel Best included fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine.