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CARGA was an agreement between the BC Green Party and the BC NDP to ensure 'stable governance that is focused on delivering progress and tangible outcomes for British Columbians.'

A fitness hearing has begun in B.C. Supreme Court for Jongwon Ham, charged with first-degree murder in the 2022 stabbing death of RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang.

Health Minister Josie Osborne announced on Wednesday that the controversial trial project would end on Jan. 31, admitting it hadn't achieved the results the government had wanted.

Burnaby RCMP and city outreach workers helped a 71-year-old man who had been unhoused for 14 years move into temporary housing after being found living in an encampment.

Owner Andrew Reynolds’ security camera filmed the man helping himself to food and even cooking a meal, before vandalizing some of the furniture on board.

According to the fire chief, crews have responded to fire-related calls at the encampment about 80 times since last March.

Last spring, Lyndsay Richholt of Kelowna, B.C., was given six months to live without a liver transplant.

They would like to see the provincial government step in to help clean it up, especially as it is located near the Chilliwack River Fish Hatchery and another fish-bearing creek.

Despite signage prohibiting fire activity in the area, three blazes have erupted at the encampment in just the past two weeks.

A single mother from Ukraine and her six young sons have been staying at the Kelowna Women's Shelter but are desperate for a place to call home.

The City of Kelowna, in partnership with BC Housing, plans to build a 40-unit supportive and complex care facility on Pacific Avenue near Capri Mall.

Vancouver's hospitality industry continues to put pressure on the provincial government over the deteriorating situation on Granville Street.

BC Housing said it is currently working through designs, approvals and permitting processes with the City of Vancouver, and is aiming to start demolition and construction in 2026.

Despite a growing homelessness problem in the South Okanagan city, council voted 4-2 against the project and the millions of provincial dollars that would come along with it.

Vancouver police responded to Granville and Helmcken streets at approximately 3:15 p.m., after receiving reports that a man had been stabbed. He died in the hospital.

Through all of its struggles, the building blocks of Chinatown's community have remained. It's a place of refuge where those who weren’t accepted elsewhere could find support.

Three people are suing the actor in civil cases at London's High Court linked to his time as artistic director of the Old Vic theatre.

The 50-unit tiny home community would have been built on a city-owned parcel of land near Dartmouth Road and Dartmouth Drive and funded by the provincial government.

"We've spent about now, about $9,000 in the last year and a half on windows,” said Michael Neill, who owns Mosaic Books told Global Okanagan last week.

In June 2020, the province bought the former Howard Johnson for $55 million, to house people who’d been living in encampments, including individuals with serious substance use.