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Daphne Bramham: Who knew that cows gambol each spring?
CRESTON — Holly stuck her big, bovine nose through the pen’s metal slats curious about the camera-wielding stranger in front of her. It was one of the few spring days that’s felt like spring this year....
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Foreign students at UBC squeezing out domestic applicants, prof's paper argues
The University of B.C. is displacing domestic students while allowing international students with lower qualifications into some academic programs, say a University of B.C. economist and University of...
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The final day of the B.C. campaign trail: What you need to know
After spending the last 28 days on buses and planes, the three party leaders will be out on the hustings again Tuesday to encourage supporters to cast their ballots and to make one last effort to woo...
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REAL SCOOP: Witness describes being at Barber murder
For the first time since Jonathan Barber was gunned down nine years ago Tuesday, all the details of the night of his murder have been described by a man who was there. Ex-United Nations gangster C...
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Victoria father wants the right to force teenage daughter into rehab
VICTORIA — A Victoria father is pleading for the power to check his 15-year-old daughter, who he says is addicted to heroin, into rehab. The father says it breaks his heart to watch his daughter make...
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Canada 150: 'Intensely private' Caleb Chan one of brothers who contributed...
To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. Caleb Chan, it has been said, probably owns more golf courses in B.C. than most...
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Vancouver: NDP shakes up vote in select ridings
The NDP scored a big win with George Chow over Suzanne Anton in Vancouver-Fraserview, a riding that pundits said the party absolutely had to re-capture in order to defeat the B.C. Liberals...
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Fraser Valley: Liberals looked strong in the east
It was a nail-biter north of the Fraser Tuesday night, with Liberal and NDP candidates neck-and-neck long after the polls closed. In the end, the NDP squeaked out a victory in bellwether ridings Maple...
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Car belonging to missing Burnaby family found submerged near Mitchell Island
A tragic end has come to the search for a Burnaby family that had been reported missing. Ming Dong Xu, 38, his wife Yu Ling Zhang, 36, and their four-year-old on Garrick were reported missing after...
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Surrey: NDP takes six of nine ridings
In the last election, the NDP’s Jagrup Brar lost the riding he had held for nine years by just 200 votes. On Tuesday night, he was redeemed. Surrey-Fleetwood, which was won by Liberal Peter Fassbender...
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Canada 150: Joe Capilano rose to prominence with 1906 visit to King Edward in...
Not long after he became chief of the Squamish in the late 19th century, Joe Capilano started travelling to Vancouver Island and the coast to talk to indigenous groups about what were then known as...
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Possible recounts in a handful of B.C. ridings
Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer. That’s what happened in a handful of B.C. ridings Tuesday evening, where the margin between Liberal and NDP candidates came in at under 1,000 votes...
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Delta, Richmond: NDP takes Delta North, Liberals hold Richmond
Former Olympic athlete Ravi Kahlon scored a victory in the battleground riding of Delta North. Kahlon, who represented Canada in field hockey in the Beijing and Sydney Olympics, now vows to be a voice...
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B.C. Election 2017: Christy Clark to try and govern with minority
British Columbia voters denied the B.C. Liberal party a new majority government Tuesday, instead splitting the political power base among three parties and plunging the province into the kind of...
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B.C. election live blog: Track the results here
We’ll be live all night as the B.C. election comes down to the final tallies. Watch this space for results, news and social media reaction as the province decides who will run the B.C. government for...
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B.C. Election 2017: In pictures
We’ll be live all night as the B.C. election comes down to the final tallies. Watch this space for updated photos as the candidates and their supporters celebrate their wins, or grovel in their losses....
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Failed equipment, poor risk management cited in Victoria barge grounding
Investigators say the grounding of two barges near Victoria last year was caused by inadequate towing equipment and poor risk management. The Transportation Safety Board has released a report into the...
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Delta looks to set up emergency water supply for southern part of community
If a major earthquake hits the Lower Mainland area and cuts off essential services, South Delta will be left without an emergency water supply. The Corporation of Delta is looking to change that, and...
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Park board to vote on bylaw banning cetaceans at Vancouver Aquarium
The Vancouver park board will vote Monday on an bylaw amendment to ban the display of cetaceans at the Vancouver Aquarium. The proposed amendments would ban any new cetacean being brought to the...
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UN gang had murder suspect killed in Mexico after saying `f— the crew’, trial...
The United Nations gang had a suspect in the Kevin LeClair murder killed in Mexico because they were worried he might turn on them, B.C. Supreme Court heard Wednesday. Jesse “Egon” Adkins was hiding in...
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