A man found dead on the street in Burnaby has been identified, and investigators believe his death is linked to the drug trade. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Unit says 51-year-old Joseph Vincent Morrissey of Vancouver died under suspicious circumstances. Morrissey's body was found Monday (in the 6700-block of Fourth Street) and police say his injuries are consistent with foul play. Sergeant Frank Jang is appealing for pedestrians or anyone with dash-camera footage to contact IHIT if they were in the area of Lakefield Drive and Fourth Street and happened to see any suspicious activity

A women's shelter in Vancouver received a royal visit on Tuesday from Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.The Downtown Eastside Women's Centre shared photo of Meghan's visit on Facebook.The shelter says staff spoke with her about issues affecting women in the community.Meghan and her husband Prince Harry recently announced they will step down from senior royal duties and split their time between Canada and the U.K.The Queen has since said she is supportive of the couple's decision.British Columbia Premier John Horgan has said he's already had conversations with the prime minister about the couple po

It's possible "an entire generation" of boys in Summerland, B.C., may have been surreptitiously recorded in the nude at the community's pool over a 10- to 15-year period, a judge said Monday before passing sentence on a former lifeguard who created the videos. Edward Casavant, 55, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, making child pornography, voyeurism and sexual exploitation of a person with a disability, and was sentenced to six years in prison. With enhanced credit for time served, Casavant, who gave himself the nickname "Eddie Spaghetti" and retired from his job at the Summe

Operators of the Sea to Sky Gondola say the attraction will reopen ahead of schedule after vandals cut the ride's main cable last August. The company says operations in Squamish, B.C., will resume Feb. 14, several weeks ahead of the previously estimated date. The ride's 30 cabins, each capable of carrying eight people, smashed to the ground but the vandalism occurred while the attraction was closed and no one was hurt. The main cable and 30 new cabins arrived from Europe in the months after the incident and general manager Kirby Brown says final safety inspections and certification by Technic

A WestJet plane bound for Victoria from Calgary has landed in Vancouver after striking a bird in the air. A statement from the company says WestJet flight 209 reported hitting the bird while inbound to Victoria. The statement says a decision was made to divert to Vancouver due to the availability of maintenance resources. It says the flight landed normally and the aircraft has subsequently been removed from service for required safety inspections. WestJet says it sincerely apologizes for the interruption to passengers' travel plans and any inconvenience it may have caused. It adds all 31

Premier John Horgan says a natural gas pipeline across northern British Columbia will be built despite on going protests and an eviction notice from some hereditary Indigenous leaders. The premier says the courts have ruled in favour of the project and the rule of law will apply to ensure work continues on the Coastal GasLink pipeline across northern B.C. to a coastal an export terminal. The 670-kilometre pipeline is part of a $40 billion liquefied natural gas project. Horgan says the project has received approval from 20 Indigenous nations along the pipeline route and its completion is of vi

The Independent Investigations Office of British Columbia is investigating the fatal shooting of a man following an hours-long standoff with police in the southern Interior of the province. Lytton RCMP say they got a call about a man in distress at about 8 a.m. on Monday. They say the man had firearms and there was a report of gunfire from the residence soon after police arrived. Police say there were two other people who were safely evacuated from the house while the man remained inside and negotiations continued. They say at about 2 p.m., an interaction between the man and the officers resu

A senior judge with the British Columbia Supreme Court has denied a media request to broadcast the extradition hearing of a Huawei executive wanted in the United States on fraud charges. A consortium of 13 Canadian and international media outlets, including The Canadian Press, applied to use two discrete cameras to record portions of Meng Wanzhou's extradition hearing next week. The media's lawyer Daniel Coles argued that there is significant public interest in the case and that broadcasting proceedings would engage with the very meaning of open and accessible justice in the modern era. The c

The provincial government is more than doubling the number of specialty nurse training opportunities in the province by funding 1,000 seats each year at the British Columbia School of Technology (BCIT). This increase will help meet growing demand for care throughout British Columbia. Specialty nurses work in high-skill areas ranging from emergency settings to intensive care units for high-risk cardiac care patients, to delivering babies and providing newborn care, to working with complex patients with multiple health challenges. "Specialty nurses help us when we need emergency care; they help