Discovery of human remains on a rural property east of Vancouver has ended a search that began more than three years ago.
A statement from Abbotsford police says bones were found on March 19.
It confirms the remains are those of 38-year-old Marie Stuart.
Stuart was reported missing in the Fraser Valley city on Dec. 27, 2016.
The cause of Stuart's death is under investigation, but police say foul play is not suspected.
The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says home sales dropped by 39.4 per cent in April from a year earlier to hit an almost four-decade low.
After scouring a littered seascape with its NATO allies, a Canadian Forces warship formally ended its search for survivors Friday after its maritime helicopter crashed off the coast of Greece.
Real estate firm Colliers International says about one in five commercial tenants surveyed requested April rent relief as the COVID-19 shutdown hit business activity. The company says that 21 per cent of the 7,100 retail, industrial, and office tenants in its managed portfolio across Canada requested relief, and close to half of that share indicated they could not afford to make their rent payment.
B.C. teachers have voted to approve a new, three-year collective agreement with the provincial government. The deal with the B.C. Public School Employers' Association includes general wage increases of two per cent every year along with a mediated process on how to better support negotiations in the future.
Finance Minister Carole James says thousands of people applied for British Columbia's $1,000 tax-free emergency benefit in the first minutes of the program going online today.
Vancouver police are reporting an increase in anti-Asian, hate-motivated incidents in recent weeks. The department makes the announcement as it seeks public help to identify a man seen scrawling graffiti on several large windows at the Chinese Cultural Centre on April 2.