VANCOUVER - Environment Canada has issued wind warnings for large sections of Vancouver Island and Metro Vancouver as a low pressure centre approaches the coast.

Argentina has held off South Africa to win the men’s title and New Zealand beat Fiji to claim the women’s title at the Vancouver Sevens, the fourth leg of rugby's World Sevens Series.

Facing an "unprecedented drug crisis", Vancouver decriminalised drug possession. The laws unleashed a fierce debate as deaths continued to climb.

The deal is being heralded as the first major federal government infrastructure with Indigenous revenue sharing.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the tremor struck at 1:26 p.m. local time on Friday at a depth of about 10 km. The quake was originally reported to be a magnitude 5.1, but its intensity has since been revised down to a preliminary magnitude 4.8.

An 4.8 magnitude earthquake has hit British Columbia on Friday afternoon, state officials say some residents in northwestern Washington could have felt the rumbling as well.

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation is forecasting that Metro Vancouver's rental market will see growing vacancies but higher average prices over the next couple of years.

It has been 15 years since Joannie Rochette was at the centre of one of the most compelling stories in Olympic history at Vancouver 2010.

The British Columbia women’s college basketball championship will be relocated from a school whose coach and players allegedly mistreated a transgender opponent.