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Women can now receive 3D mammograms for the first time in B.C. BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre's new Sadie Diamond Breast Health Imaging Centre is open and has state-of-the-art digital mammography machines complete with tomosynthesis.

With reports of toddlers falling out of windows during the past few weeks, BC Children's Hospital and the BC Ambulance Service strongly urge parents and caregivers to install proper safety latches on windows.

A consulting firm in Vancouver is being paid $593,370 by the provincial government to carry out community consultations related to the coastal ferry service. Kirk & Co.

The Pender Harbour and District Health Centre has launched an endowment fund they hope will help improve the community-funded organization's services.

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) has expressed interest in acquiring ownership of the New Brighton dock after receiving word that Transport Canada might be giving it up.

Sunshine Coast Tourism (SCT) is one step closer to adopting a new hotel tax that will potentially triple the region's current tourism budget.

In the wake of a scathing audit of the B.C. legislature's financial books, the expenses of MLAs have come under fire.

A geotechnical report into the sinkhole found on Seawatch Lane says more sinkholes, springs and landslides could occur in the future at the Seawatch at The Shores development. The report compiled by Thurber Engineering Ltd.

An entire stock of salmon at a fish farm in Culloden Point has now been culled following a confirmed outbreak of infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN) virus. The area is located beyond Saltery Bay in Jervis Inlet.

The Sechelt Indian Band (SIB) launched a class action lawsuit against the government of Canada this week in an attempt to gain compensation for day scholars who attended residential schools.