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VANCOUVER — Premier John Horgan has called a byelection for Vancouver-Quilchena. The vote will be held Saturday, April 30, and is to replace Andrew Wilkinson, who resigned from the legislature on Feb. 17.

VICTORIA — A new telephone line has been launched by the British Columbia government to help Ukrainian refugees get the support they need and to co-ordinate donations being offered from residents. The Service B.C.

VICTORIA — Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in British Columbia have continued to tick down. The Health Ministry says in a statement on Friday that 274 people were in hospital, compared with 281 the day before.

VICTORIA — Expanding whistleblower protections in British Columbia will give the government more insight into issues of concern at the public service level, says the attorney general.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government has worked with First Nations to defer logging across more than a million hectares of old-growth forests at risk of permanent loss, an area greater than 4,100 Stanley Parks, the forests minister said Friday.

SURREY, B.C. — British Columbia's police watchdog has been called in after the shooting death of a man in Surrey, B.C.

Sen. Napoleon Gomez Urrutia, who fled to Canada in 2006 and returned to Mexico 12 years later, faces questions about whether he properly renounced Canadian citizenship before holding office in his native country.

"I did it for the orcas primarily," said a man convicted of breaching a Trans Mountain injunction when asked by a B.C. Supreme Court judge why he did it.

The company originally contracted to build the North Shore’s massive new sewage plant has alleged Metro Vancouver was responsible for project delays and cost increases.

The 2019 Public Interest Disclosure Act created a whistleblowing regime for government workers.