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The app will help customers check current conditions, make bookings, see sailing status and check estimated deck space, among other options.

RICHMOND, B.C. — The Transportation Safety Board has issued a warning to small boat operators that they shouldn’t rely on a single electronic navigation aid, after a water taxi rammed a rock in thick fog off Tofino, B.C.

VANCOUVER — Police say a body has been found inside the remains of a burned tent at an encampment on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. A statement from Const. Tania Visintin says the woman's body was found at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday.

12 people have died in avalanche accidents in B.C. so far this year, which is higher than normal. More people are seeking training on what to do if they’re caught in an avalanche.

VANCOUVER — The first day of spring is exactly one week away, but extreme winter conditions still persist on British Columbia's southern and southeastern mountain passes as snowfall warnings are posted for most routes.

Victoria Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils says music programs have been “severely cut” for the past two years, and will dwindle to nothing “if we continue whittling away at it.”

DAAJING GIIDS, B.C. — Earthquakes Canada says two separate, minor quakes rattled areas off the coast of British Columbia over the weekend. It says a 3.8 magnitude quake struck on Saturday just before 11:30 p.m. on Graham Island in Haida Gwaii, B.C.

Const. Tristan Williams and nurse Chris Nagainis belong to the Co-Response Team, a brand new VicPD/Island Health unit tasked with handling police calls with a mental-health component.

“Whether the killing was ensuring the lawsuit went away, or that Brown was silenced, or that Brown didn’t end up with $10,000, the only person connected with the settlement and Brown is Alexander.”

"It is very, very difficult to look at those photographs, to see what happened on that road and to think that Mr. Knowles walked away," the judge said.