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The 25,000 members of the B.C. Government and Service Employees union have voted 82 per cent in favour of strike action, the union revealed on Tuesday.

A porpoise that was nursed back to health by the Vancouver Aquarium's Marine Mammal Rescue Centre will stay at the aquarium rather than being released back into the wild.

A blockade by members of the Gitxsan First Nation in Old Hazleton, B.C., has entered its sixth month and while band members say they have no intention of backing down, the RCMP admits it won't force them.

B.C.'s deputy provincial health officer says the province's drinking water is among the best in the world but collecting data on it is still a challenge.

A review of Metro Vancouver's Transit Police says officers are making double the overtime of their colleagues at the Vancouver Police Department, but there is little TransLink can do to lower the cost.

A coroner's jury has been charged with sifting through a morass of contradictory and often damning testimony to try to determine what can be done differently to prevent another accident like the one that killed three B.C. mushroom farm workers in 2008.

Royal Dutch Shell says it has given a tentative go ahead for a liquefied natural gas project in Kitimat, B.C., alongside three Asian Partners.

The Insurance Corporation of B.C. says it might shift to a driver-focused rate system that would see low-risk drivers paying up to two-thirds less for their premiums.