The B-C Real Estate Association says the province's housing market is staying relatively calm this spring,
The association says sales were up more than 15 per cent last month compared to February 2023.
B-C-R-E-A Chief Economist Brendon Ogmundson says activity is picking up, but home sales are still below normal and prices have been essentially flat since last summer.
Active listings are up more than 20 per cent over last year's levels as a result of slower sales.
R-C-M-P in Kelowna are looking for four suspects after a city statue was damaged. The Mounties say it happened downtown early Saturday morning when "The Working Man" statue was knocked over.
B-C Hydro says it set a new record for the highest peak hourly demand in August on Monday night. It comes as a heat wave sweeping across the southern half of B-C also sets records, including 37.5 Celsius in Port Alberni, breaking a benchmark set in 1933 and 30.6 Celsius at Yoho National Park, surpassing a mark set in 1930.
Two men who have been arrested for allegedly carjacking a delivery van in Richmond failed to consider that many of those vehicles come equipped with G-P-S tracking systems. R-C-M-P say it happened on Sunday when the driver said his van was taken at gunpoint by two people wearing masks.
Mario Dion retired in February after serving as the last permanent ethics and conflict-of-interest commissioner. A longtime staffer in that office, Martine Richard, took on an interim role in April — but she resigned within weeks amid controversy around the fact she is the sister-in-law of Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
New data from the Public Health Agency of Canada suggests that COVID-19 infections may be slowly starting to rise again in Canada. On its website, the agency says there are signs of continued fluctuations in some COVID-19 activity indicators after a long period of gradual decline.
The inflation rate rose to 3.3 per cent in July, a development that economists warn spells bad news for the Bank of Canada. Forecasters say the latest report raises the odds of an interest rate hike next month, despite other signs of economic softening, including rising unemployment.