Joel Ballard

The Ehattesaht First Nation says a killer whale calf that had been trapped in a remote Vancouver Island lagoon for more than a month is now free after she swam out on her own early Friday morning.

Earlier this month, changes to B.C.’s Motor Vehicle Act quietly came into effect, prohibiting the use of fully automated self-driving vehicles.

Members of the Ehattesaht First Nation, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Vancouver Aquarium have begun a rescue operation to move a stranded killer whale calf out of a remote Vancouver Island lagoon and into open water, the nation says.

For the first time in more than a decade, more people left B.C. compared to those who moved to the province, according to new data released by Statistics Canada.

Construction on the long-awaited North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant will soon begin again, according to Metro Vancouver, but the price has risen from a 2018 estimate of $700 million to $3.86 billion.

Jonathan Houweling was hit with a lifetime ban from entering the U.S. after a border agent found an old bottle of CBD oil in his truck’s console 16 months ago. Last week, however, he received news that suggested the ban might be reversed.

B.C.’s Ministry of Health has established nurse-to-patient ratios that will be used in hospitals to improve workload. The new standards set the minimum number of nurses required for six specific areas of care, including general medicine and intensive care.

The Law Society of B.C. has suspended a Surrey lawyer for five months, for committing professional misconduct by representing a man, and later his wife, in the same family law litigation.

As interest in medicinal psilocybin grows, CBC News looks at how it is produced, the state of research and the red tape experienced by people who hope it will alter the course of their lives.

A couple on Vancouver Island were shocked to learn that a black bear had set up a den underneath their home.