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VANCOUVER — Police in West Vancouver were called to meet a BC Ferries vessel as it docked in Horseshoe Bay on Saturday after people opposed to public health restrictions aimed at fighting the spread of COVID-19 caused disturbances on board.

MERRITT, B.C. — An outbreak of COVID-19 at the main Tim Hortons restaurant in Merritt, B.C., has set off a voluntary closure of the restaurant.

CHILLIWACK, B.C. — A candidate who stepped aside as a B.C. Liberal over comments he made about contraception and eugenics plans to seek election as an Independent.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia Green party says October has been the best fundraising month in its history, and there's still a week to go until the province goes to the polls.

PITT MEADOWS, B.C. — New Democrat Leader John Horgan says the resignation of Liberal candidate Laurie Throness for his inappropriate comments represents a failure of Liberal party leadership.

VANCOUVER — The more than 700,000 people who have asked for a vote-by-mail package in British Columbia's election should get their ballots into the post.

VANCOUVER — A British Columbia Liberal candidate is no longer representing the party after making comments about free birth control, even though his name will remain on the ballot in the Oct. 24 election.

VICTORIA — B.C. has recorded its first confirmed case of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in a child after antibody testing showed evidence of COVID-19. Provincial health officer Dr.

VICTORIA — A three-hour search for a man who was pulled out of Victoria's Inner Harbour on Wednesday night ended in his arrest. Police were called to a report of a person in distress in the water near a city bridge.