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Man gets 13 years, 6 months for B.C. justice institute-related attacks
VANCOUVER — A man who targeted 15 families with firebombings and shootings because he thought they had links to a training centre for emergency responders in British Columbia has been sentenced to 13...
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Foreign buyer tax: Clark rules out changes, exemptions for pre-sales
VICTORIA — Premier Christy Clark has flatly ruled out changing her government’s foreign buyer tax to grandfather real estate deals and pre-sales that will close after the tax comes into effect. “I...
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Premier misses transgender rights vote to attend party fundraiser
VICTORIA— Premier Christy Clark missed the vote in the legislature this week on transgender rights, in order to attend a party fundraiser. The premier joined members from both parties on the front...
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Fentanyl crisis: B.C. strikes task force to combat overdose deaths
The B.C. government has announced it is forming a group of experts to combat the recent rise in illicit drug overdoses in the province. At St. Paul’s Hospital on Wednesday, Premier Christy Clark said...
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Family of Canada Day 'terrorist' ready to welcome him home
VICTORIA — The family of “terrorist” John Nuttall awaits Friday’s verdict on the Canada Day bomb-plot sting by preparing for his release, hoping he will come home. Found guilty last year of planting...
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REAL SCOOP: Hells Angels trial wraps up in Vancouver
The conspiracy trial of Kelowna Hells Angels David Giles, Brian Oldham and associates James Howard, Shawn Womacks and Michael Read started in February. And on Wednesday, it wrapped up with some closing...
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Clutter, hoarding a serious problem in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Excessive clutter is a serious health and fire hazard in Vancouver single room occupancy hotels, according to a UBC study published Thursday in the journal Housing Studies. Researchers, working to...
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Sunny, but not scorching hot, long weekend predicted in Metro Vancouver
It doesn’t look like your typical mid-summer scorcher of a long weekend in Metro Vancouver, but forecasters are predicting plenty of sunshine and comfortable temperatures. That’s good news for the...
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B.C. man gets lesson on backcountry prep from bluffing black bear near Fernie
FERNIE — A Fort St. John man says never again will he go for a backcountry run without bear spray after a confrontation in southeastern B.C. Tom Coveney says he was running near the Fernie Alpine...
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Early morning shooting in Surrey sends two to hospital
Mounties in Surrey are investigating a shooting that sent two people to hospital early Thursday morning. Shortly after 3 a.m. RCMP were called out to the area of 135A Street and 108th Avenue for a...
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Metro Vancouver foreign buyer tax: New poll shows high support
An overwhelming majority of Lower Mainland residents believe the B.C. government made the right decision imposing a 15 per cent foreign buyer tax, a new public opinion poll suggests. Ninety per cent of...
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Man saves son, 4, who fell from boat off Vancouver Island; in sea for nearly...
A Central Saanich man kept his young son’s head above water for almost half an hour after the boy fell out of their boat while crabbing off Island View Beach near Victoria. Police responded to a report...
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Vancouver Parks Board launches new weapon in fight against hungry beetle
The Vancouver parks board hopes a microscopic champion will win the fight against a pest chewing through the city’s grass boulevards, lawns and playing fields. Starting this week, biologists will treat...
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Apartment fire leaves 50 Syrian refugees homeless
About 50 Syrian refugees, one of whom was the victim of a pepper-spray attack in January, are homeless after a fire tore through their Coquitlam apartment block late Thursday morning. Resident Ahmed...
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Four police officers hurt in violent arrest at Victoria’s tent city
VICTORIA — Four Victoria police officers were injured in a violent tent city arrest after they were assaulted by a man at the Burdett Street encampment Thursday evening. Three officers were sent to...
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Video: Remembering the collapse of the Second Narrows bridge
Former ironworkers Gary Poirier and Lou Lessard remembered their friends and coworkers at a memorial service Friday for 19 men killed when the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge collapsed during construction...
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Strong opinions on both sides as judge overturns B.C. terrorism convictions
Reaction was strong on both sides Friday after a B.C. Supreme Court justice overturned the terrorism convictions of John Nuttall and Amanda Korody in the 2013 B.C. legislature bomb plot. Justice...
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New Leaf: Low-cost airline takes flight out of Abbotsford
Canada’s new “ultra-low-cost” air carrier, NewLeaf Travel Co., will make its first flights from Abbotsford Airport to Winnipeg and Edmonton on Sunday. The company has had a bit of a rough takeoff, with...
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This Week in History: 1947 Vancouver's first park becomes a bus depot
Vancouver’s first bus depot opened at Seymour and Dunsmuir in 1925. But bus travel outgrew the small station, so on Aug. 1, 1947, B.C. Motor Transportation Ltd. opened “Canada’s most modern bus...
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B.C. terrorism convictions overturned as judge rules pair were entrapped
Former Surrey residents John Nuttall and Amanda Korody have had their terrorism convictions overturned for planting inert pressure cooker bombs on the B.C. Legislature grounds. B.C. Supreme Court...
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