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  B.C. craft brewery offers year's supply of free beer – if you get a tattoo

  A well-known brewery in B.C.'s Lower Mainland is celebrating a milestone anniversary with an enticing offer of $1,200 worth of free beer – but there's a catch.

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  B.C. condo owner ordered to stop listing unit on Airbnb, fined $2K

  A condo owner in B.C. has been ordered to stop using her unit as a short-term rental and will have to pay $2,000 in fines for renting it out on Airbnb and Craigslist in the past.

• 6 months in, Vancouver hits only 30% of annual housing target

  A report by city staff has found that Vancouver is falling short of meeting a housing target set by the provincial government.

• Squamish bear attack was 'defensive in nature': BCCOS

  A mother bear that bit a woman on a trail in Squamish last week will not be captured or killed, according to officials.

• 'Shoot you all': B.C. teacher's classroom joke results in reprimand

  A teacher from B.C.'s Southern Interior who jokingly told a class he would shoot them if they didn't ace an upcoming test has been reprimanded for professional misconduct.

• Fort Nelson evacuees wait it out as incoming weather holds key to B.C. firefight

  A wildfire in the community of Fort Nelson has significantly expanded as residents in British Columbia's northeast receive more mandatory evacuation orders.

• Arrests made after property crime incidents in Fort Nelson amid evacuation orders: RCMP

  As thousands of residents in the Fort Nelson area are under evacuation order, local Mounties say some arrests have been made following incidents of property crime.

• New LEED-certified control tower being constructed at Victoria airport

  The shovels have hit the ground on the construction of a new LEED-certified navigation tower at Victoria International Airport.

• Vancouver police cleared of wrongdoing after woman alleges injury on downtown patio

  British Columbia's police oversight agency has cleared the Vancouver Police Department of wrongdoing after a woman alleged officers injured her shoulder and pulled down her pants to search her after she refused to leave the patio of a downtown restaurant.

• B.C. First Nation surveys school site as it hosts meeting regarding unmarked graves

  A First Nations community in B.C.'s northern Interior that is hosting a gathering of Indigenous groups involved in the search for unmarked graves says it's conducting a geophysical survey for such sites on the grounds of a former residential school.

• Maximum payout for LifeLabs class-action drops from $150 estimate to $7.86

  Canadian LifeLabs customers who filed an application for a class-action settlement began receiving their payments this week, though at a much lower amount than initially expected.

• Police called in transit bus to help deal with 'hundreds of intoxicated youth' in Port Moody last weekend

  A TransLink bus was dispatched to Sasamat Lake in Port Moody Friday night as police dealt with 'hundreds of intoxicated youths at closing time.'

• BC SPCA looking for owners of pets rescued from Fort Nelson

  An animal welfare charity near Fort Nelson, B.C., is trying to reunite several pets rescued from the evacuated community with their people.

• Federal Tory Leader Poilievre targets illicit drugs in B.C. hospitals

  Federal Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre says the Conservatives will put forward legislation that would forbid Ottawa from "ever" granting provinces exemptions to allow illicit drug use in hospitals.