Highlights

Entomological Society of America president Jessica Ware said the new name is scientifically accurate, easy to understand, and avoids evoking fear or discrimination.

People who discover pets in hot cars should not break vehicle windows to rescue the pet “because they will find themselves on the wrong side the law," says the BC SPCA.

Without a national system to collect and share data about immigrant healthcare workers, the true scope of the problem cannot be known.

To control monkeypox, there is a short window — weeks, not months — in which to vaccinate the most susceptible and to encourage and support self-isolation for those who have symptoms.

Sheldon Lyle Nickel told students he loved them, gave them hugs and kisses, and communicated with them while drunk.

“There's a very, very strong case that the Huanan market was indeed the epicentre,” said one of the researchers.

The off-leash bylaw had been in place since 1995.

Melvin Mitchell withdrew from annual race off Nanaimo after taking a pounding on the 60-kilometre course

B.C. Ferries says it anticipates carrying more than 400,000 passengers and 140,000 vehicles this long weekend.

Julian Scholefield said the paralysis came over the course of a few hours, just 12 days after he received his second dose of a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.