B.C. General Employees’ Union President Paul Finch says the contract for 34,000 provincial government workers expires March 31, but talks are starting earlier. Finch says the union is cognizant of the financial and economic challenges facing the province, but its members have been facing an affordability crisis and a rising cost of living.

VANCOUVER - A private medical clinic that launched an unsuccessful constitutional challenge of Canada's public health care system must pay the B.C.

A stampede injured dozens of people early Wednesday as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river at the

Experts say there are likely more than the 11 beetles found last year. Kamloops city council will look at setting aside $200,000 for invasive species management this week.

Rob Shaw has spent more than 17 years covering B.C. politics, now reporting for CHEK News and writing for Glacier Media. He is the co-author of the national bestselling book A Matter of Confidence, host of the weekly podcast Political Capital, and a regular guest on CBC Radio.

Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson feels that if the provincial government listens to a new ask from municipalities it could change Kamloops “in the most positive light.”

The BC Urban Mayors’ Caucus outlined four priority action areas: mental health and substance use and treatment; community safety and wellness; affordable housing; and transit and transportation.

And the biz for Brown & Co. is familiar given the ongoing on-ice battle with Kayla MacMillan at the BC Women’s Curling Championship.

It’s exceptionally rare to see such a dry January across coastal B.C. Many communities are in line to record just a fraction of their normal precipitation for the month.

Until 2017, BC was considered Japanese beetle free before the first insect was spotted in downtown Vancouver. Since then the federal food agency has overseen a tracking and eradication program in several Lower Mainland cities.