Highlights

The BC Chamber of Commerce is looking to gauge the impact of permanent paid sick leave on businesses in the province, and has launched a survey to collect input.

Heath minister calls international travel 'risky and unstable'

Hydro company says there was a 4% decrease in electricity load last Christmas

The nearly half-billion dollars in insurance claims makes November's flooding the costliest natural disaster in B.C.'s history. But with the government yet to release its damage estimates, it comes nowhere near the true financial toll.

Construction industry forecasting deficits as high as 60,000 workers in the coming decade

The Fraser Valley winery is also dealing with substantial damage to their wine and crops.

B.C.'s annual overdose death rate from illicit drug use is already the highest on record, at 1,782

'Vaccine equity' around the world needs to be considered, says the province's top doc

Look at 'em go!

Lawyers for two men accused in the 2010 so-called mistaken identity killing of a couple near Cranbrook have told a B.C. Supreme Court judge the evidence falls short of that need for a conviction and that the pair are entitled to acquittals.