Rob Shaw

B.C.’s political parties traded barbs in the legislature on Tuesday after a new report showed British Columbia was the least affordable province to live in the country.

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The B.C. government is facing a class action lawsuit from the families of two teenage girls who say they became addicted to drugs in part because of the wide availability of government safe supply, and the refusal of the province to crack down on its diversion to street dealers.

The cost to afford housing, groceries and other necessities is now almost $27 an hour per parent in a family of four in Greater Victoria, up more than five per cent in the last year.

The B.C. government has ratcheted up a December "temporary pause" on external hiring into an all-out ban on new hires in the public service.

The B.C. government is starting the process of banning employers from asking for sick notes for short-term absences from work.

Airbnb has begun sending thousands of people cancellation notices for stays in B.C., amid a dispute with the provincial government over a short-term rental registration process.

One of the candidates in the race to become leader of the BC Greens says the party needs to make changes to a verification process that could leave hundreds, if not thousands, of new members unable to vote in just a few days.

B.C.’s finance minister says it’s not true that the NDP government is fudging the province’s budget numbers to try and make a record deficit look smaller by booking money that was supposed to come in over two decades into one lump total this year.

Seniors care home providers are urging the B.C. government to rethink cuts to funding that covers overtime and outside nursing staff.