WARNING: This story contains graphic details that some readers may find upsetting. After multiple delays, the murder trial for a Kelowna woman restarted on Dec. 8. Gabriella Sears, a transgender woman, is facing charges of second-degree murder and interference with human remains in the June 2021 death of Darren Middleton. Following Sears’ arrest, she confessed […]

More than 80 people packed into a room in Duncan’s Cowichan Community Centre on Dec. 8, gathering in grief, anger and solidarity to support the family of Leonard Sylvester III. Sylvester a 38-year-old member of the region’s Penelakut First Nation died following what his widow describes as a cascade of medical failures at Cowichan District

Environment Canada has issued a rain alert for Metro Vancouver, including Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. According to the national weather agency, an atmospheric river will be arriving on the south coast of B.C., bringing with it heavy rain overnight into Wednesday evening. Around 50 millimetres to 80 mm of rain is expected to fall.

Crews are investigating the site of a minor rock slide on Highway 97, north of Summerland. The slide occurred on Monday, Dec. 8, around 4:30 p.m. While this is close to the site of previous rock slides, the Ministry of Transportation and Transit said the Dec. 8 incident is south of and unrelated to the

The federal government introduced a justice reform bill on Tuesday (Dec. 9) that strengthens penalties for intimate partner violence by designating femicide and hate-related killings as first-degree murder. A history of abuse, sexual violence or coercive control would be used to make this determination. This is one of the changes sought by the family of