A selection of some of Black Press Media’s top photos for 2023. (Black Press Media
A vehicle was destroyed by a powerful blast in the parking lot in the Willoughby Town Centre on Wednesday, July 26. (Kyler Emerson/Langley Advance Times)
The Monashee Trail Society’s annual Outhouse Races in Lumby Sunday, Jan. 22, flushed away some of the winter blues as the event was held under perfect sunny skies near the village. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
Surrey firefighters work to extinguish flames in a field after an ultralight plane crashed in the 6900-block of 152 Street in Surrey on Friday, June 2, 2023. (Tom Zillich/Surrey Now Leader)
A red dress hangs at Simms Park Friday (May 5) at the Red Dress Day ceremonies. (Erin Haluschak/Comox Valley Record)
A boy pins his poppy to the cross under the poppies of his community peers during Remembrance Day services at the Cenotaph on Comox Avenue. (Connor McDowell/Comox Valley Record)
A mother bear and her cub perched in a tree at Bear James Park, near a popular salmon fishing spot along the Puntledge River, on October 9, 2023. (Olivier Laurin/Comox Valley Record)
Hidden Valley Mobile Home Park resident Kate Cowan paid for an arborist to produce a report, which recommended the trees come down. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
Hundreds of nurses in Vancouver for a B.C. Nurses Union conference marched along the streets of Vancouver Wednesday (May 31, 2023) calling for safer staffing levels. (Lauren Collins)
A group of yachts cruise by as their sails catch the wind Saturday, May 27 at the start of the 2023 Swiftsure International Yacht Race off Clover Point in Victoria. (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)
Demonstrators in Victoria joined others across the province on Sept. 28 as they called for more protection of old-growth forests. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)
This entry in a wearable art show Haute Trash! – Trash Fashion Show and Competition on May 20 at the Capitol Theatre was entitled Madame Cola. Designed by Shirley McLim, the dress was crafted from pop tabs and crochet thread for the bodice, and coke tins, crochet thread and stiff wire for the skirt. Hat and rose accessories made from coke tins. Model: Tiffany McLim. Photo: Bill Metcalfe
Erin Thomson’s lunar costume was a draw during the Polka Dot Dragon Festival. Photo: Tyler Harper
Fire crews battle a restaurant fire in the 2900-block of Douglas Street early Friday (June 16) morning. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)
A black bear hangs around just outside of Smithers this summer. (Marisca Bakker/The Interior News)
A competitor gets bucked during the bull riding at the Falkland Stampede on Sunday, May 21. (Bowen Assman/Morning Star Photo)
Rick Hansen and his team of difference makers participate in the 95th Annual Williams Lake Parade July 1st, 2023. (Angie Mindus photo - Williams Lake Tribune)
Children enjoyed old fashioned fun with a potato sack race at the Likely May Day celebration on Saturday, May 20, 2023. (Monica Lamb-Yorski photo - Williams Lake Tribune)
Premier Davide Eby extinguishes a propane fire during the BC Mine Rescue Competition on June 17, 2023 at the Williams Lake Stampede Grounds. (Ruth Lloyd photo - Williams Lake Tribune)
Anti-SOGI and pro-SOGI groups stood shoulder to shoulder at Five Corners in Chilliwack where an estimated 500 people gathered both for and against the 1 Million March 4 Children on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)
Josh Tobey, who’s a member of jousting troupe Knights of Valour, is pictured at his Chilliwack home on Sept. 16, 2023. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)
One of the four homes destroyed in the fire in Clayton Heights Wednesday (Aug. 9). (Photo: Anna Burns)
Anita Huberman participated in Surrey Pride’s event in South Surrey on Saturday, May 27, 2023. (Photo: Anna Burns)
A couple watching their neighbourhood burn after being evacuated from West Kelowna on Aug. 17, 2023. More than 10,000 Central Okanagan properties were on evacuation order. (Jacqueline Gelineau/Capital News)
Extensive wildfire damage is visible from Okanagan Lake after the McDougall Creek wildfire swept through the Central Okanagan. (Brittany Webster/Capital News)
Pass Creek Fall Fair 2023 Photo: Betsy Kline
Members of the Katzie First Nation Drum and Dance Group performed at the 2023 Truth and Reconciliation Day event in Memorial Peace Park on Sept. 30. (Brandon Tucker/The News)
DFO Fisheries officers took part in a mock whale beach exercise on Stories Beach on Nov. 8. Photo by Marc Kitteringham/Campbell River Mirror
Linden Ross from Barriere, B.C. is thrown from his horse during Coombs Bulls, Broncs and Barrels on Aug. 20. (Kevin Forsyth photo)Across the province, Black Press Media journalists took thousands of photos in 2023.
The photos ranged from sports to hard news to features and portraits.
Here is just a selection of some of the photos.
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