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Ottawa's new 'Pacific strategy' will combine conservation, economic growth,...
OTTAWA — The Trudeau government will formalize its long-promised moratorium on crude oil tankers off the northern B.C. coast this fall as part of a broader “coastal strategy” to protect the environment...
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Coding in BC schools: Computing the value of programming languages
We all love our computers. Smartphones, laptops, bank machines, cash registers, GPS systems — you name it, we use computers every day and all the time. But only a select few of us understand how a...
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4.5m popcorn kernels, 30 truckloads of poop, and more PNE numbers
And just like that, another year of the Fair at the Pacific National Exhibition has come and is almost gone. If you didn’t get a chance to visit the PNE this summer, take a look at some of the numbers...
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Abbotsford Highway crash: Tow truck driver hit by truck, breaks legs
The owner of a Fraser Valley towing company is urging drivers to slow down and smarten up after a tow truck driver suffered two broken legs in a collision on the side of Highway 1 in Abbotsford. Jason...
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Euthanized West Vancouver bear may have been fed, says conservation service
Someone may have been feeding a black bear that had to be euthanized in West Vancouver last week. The bear, which was involved in at least two “near-misses” with campers and hikers along the Capilano...
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Cleanup groups gather to clear dump sites at beauty spots
Four burned-out cars line a trail near Beaver Lake in the mountains above Kelowna. At Long Meadow Lake in the Okanagan Highlands, hikers encounter ducks, a pair of herons and an abandoned camper. Lac...
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Q&A: Reconciliation is possible through dialogue, chief says
Robert Joseph, one of the hereditary chiefs of the Gwawaenuk First Nation near Alert Bay, found himself in the depths of despair as a young man, until an epiphany changed his life. Joseph was six years...
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Is B.C. ready for a $15-per-hour minimum wage?
For two years, Brady Taylor earned $8 to $10 an hour bouncing between three temp agencies. One day, he’d be sent to a construction site in Port Coquitlam. The next day, a warehouse in North Vancouver....
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Chevron-backed school funding program fuels interest in B.C.
Schools from Langley to Bowen Island are now free to apply for funding for science and technology projects backed by Chevron’s Fuel Your School promotion. The promotion has been expanded from five...
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B.C. government will not reconsider tax on foreign home buyers: Christy Clark
VANCOUVER — The plunge in real estate sales and deceleration in price increases in the Vancouver area last month were exactly what the government was trying to manoeuvre, and Premier Christy Clark says...
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B.C. ocean-watchers fear European crab invasion
Fisheries researchers on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border are on the lookout for more alien sea invaders after the discovery of a single European Green Crab in the waters off San Juan Island. The...
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Ian Mulgrew: Province trampling on citizens' rights, health care trial told
The Great Debate over the future of universal medicare was launched in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday though the real issues before the judge are far more complicated. Outside the Law Courts in downtown...
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Drug education upgraded in schools amid B.C. overdose crisis
Educators are working diligently to warn youth about the inherent dangers of fentanyl as the death toll from B.C.’s overdose crisis shows little sign of receding. According to the B.C. Coroners...
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U.S. seafood watch program puts four B.C. fisheries on red list
An American seafood sustainability program is recommending consumers stop eating salmon caught by four B.C. fisheries that it has “red-listed” over concerns about shrinking chinook and coho...
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B.C. 'better prepared' for new wave of refugees
OTTAWA — The B.C. government and settlement groups are bracing for a new wave of roughly 1,500 government-assisted refugees from the Middle East before the end of this year. Another 750...
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More resources needed for IIO's future, retiring chief says
The outgoing head of the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. says the IIO needs more resources from the government as it moves ahead. “The IIO must be provided with the resources necessary to...
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Pregnancy rates among trans youth match rates among youth in general
A study, the first of its kind, has found that transgender youth get pregnant at about the same rate as the general youth population. Using the Canadian Transgender Youth Health Survey of 540 youth...
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England-Wales-Ireland Garden Tour 2017
Today, I’m delighted to launch my exclusive 16-day garden/culture tour to England, North Wales and Ireland from May 7 to 22 with the option of a three-day add on to London for the Chelsea Flower Show,...
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Man's body found on rural property in Abbotsford
Homicide police are investigating after a man was found dead on a rural property in Abbotsford early Wednesday. Around 10:40 a.m., Abbotsford Police received a report of a dead man in an outbuilding of...
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REAL SCOOP: Prison lawsuit going to trial next June
Chris Iser was arrested in Vancouver’s Kensington Park in October 2010 as Gang Task Force members descended on him and several other gangsters in the Knight Street park that day. They had all just been...
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