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  VANCOUVER -- Another COVID-19 update will be released Wednesday, with details on the latest cases, deaths, outbreaks and vaccination rates in B.C. That update, which will be released in the afternoon, will come in a written statement. On Tuesday, health officials said 165 more people tested positive for the disease locally. The provinces rolling weekly average for coronavirus cases has dropped to 175 per day, down from a record high of 1,130 back in April – progress that health officia...

  VANCOUVER -- Simon Fraser University researchers say a spiders ability to sniff out a certain species of ants could lead to a safe spider repellent for humans. “When the number of ants increases in a garden, the number of spiders decline,” SFU scientist Andreas Fischer told CTV News. “And we wanted to know why.” The researchers chose the common false black widow spider to study because of its proximity to humans. The harmless species can be found in and around buildings and wall...

  VANCOUVER -- Weeks after the remains of more than 200 children were found buried at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., the Better Business Bureau in that province is warning of possible scams aiming to capitalize on the tragedy. In a news release Wednesday, the BBB said an "overwhelming outpouring of support" has created opportunity for scams, fake charities and fake online retailers. In one example, the BBB said a consumer sent a report about a Facebook ad allege...

  VANCOUVER -- B.C.s independent police watchdog says an investigation has determined the death of a man after his release from RCMP cells in Mission had no connection to his involvement with police. The Independent Investigations Office says the man was arrested in the early hours of March 21 last year and released from cells about nine hours later. The office says the man was reported missing six days later and a review of available evidence confirms a thorough search was done, including...

  VANCOUVER -- Mounties in Langley are investigating after a shooting that sent a man to hospital Sunday afternoon. Langley RCMP told CTV News Vancouver the call came in around 5:30 p.m., reporting shots fired in the 26200 block of 60th Avenue, a rural stretch of road north of Aldergrove. When officers arrived, they found the victim "yelling and screaming" in a ditch, police said, adding that he is a 50-year-old man who is known to police. The victim was taken to hospital for treatment of...

  VANCOUVER -- Bells at Anglican churches across Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands chimed 215 times Sunday, once for each child whose remains were recently found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. “We need to start somewhere and we need to signify and signal something,” said Reverend Ross Bliss, vicar of Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver. “(We need to) signal intent that, you know, we get that this is a horrible thing, this is an important thing and we are implicated. S...

  VANCOUVER -- Four thousand doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine have arrived at London Drugs pharmacies across B.C. this weekend. The plan is to start getting shots into arms by the end of this week. “Anyone who received their first doses of AstraZeneca with London Drugs, we’ll start calling them on Monday to book for their second appointment,” says Chris Chiew, general manager of pharmacy for London Drugs. Roughly 10,000 British Columbians received their first AstraZeneca sho...

Members of First Nations groups from both B.C. and Washington State gathered at the Peace Arch border crossing Saturday to hold a joint ceremony after the discovery of children’s remains at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

  VANCOUVER -- Police say Vancouvers eighth homicide of 2021 was targeted, but theyre not yet saying whether the Friday night shooting was gang related. Officers were called to the intersection of Kent Avenue and Kerr Street around 10 p.m. for reports of shots fired across from Riverfront Park, Vancouver police said Saturday. When they arrived, police said, they found 44-year-old Alvis Anjesh Singh dead in his vehicle. Vancouver Police Department spokesperson Const. Tania Visintin told re...

  VANCOUVER -- The Port Moody home from which Trina Hunt was reported missing back in January was behind police tape Saturday, and officers were also seen at her husband Iain Hunts family home in Mission. Hunt was reported missing from the Port Moody home on Jan. 18. Police said the 48-year-old’s husband reported coming home to find she was gone. On May 1, the Lower Mainlands Integrated Homicide Investigation Team confirmed that remains found in Hope, B.C. in late March were those of Hun...