B.C. News

A pleasure boat swooped in to rescue seven people on board a nearby sports fishing boat which was taking on water early Friday evening. The 31-foot fishing boat was west of Pender Harbour when a mayday call was issued via radio at 5:20 p.m.

A 19-year-old North Vancouver man has been arrested for sending a blow-up doll airborne into Vancouver Harbour flight paths. Just after 8 p.m.

Vancouver police are searching for a man who is flashing women inside their ground-floor homes in the city’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood.

VANCOUVER — A Surrey trucking company has lost its appeal of a court order that it pay more than $350,000 in restitution to 29 temporary foreign workers it hired as long-haul truckers. Last year, Harlens Trucking Ltd.

A scary encounter between a grizzly bear and a kayaker in Squamish was recently caught on tape.

VANCOUVER — The makeshift shrine of flowers is still there, but the person who killed Marrisa Shen is no closer to being caught as the one-year anniversary of the 13-year-old’s murder dawns.

Billions of dollars of provincial government projects, starting with Metro Vancouver’s Pattullo Bridge, will be built using union-only labour, under new rules announced by Premier John Horgan.

SUSAN LAZARUK Vancouver Sun VANCOUVER — A Vancouver man, who at 19 murdered his elderly father as they fought over the son’s theft of $100,000 to purchase a Ferrari, will spend at least the next 10 years in prison.

IAN MULGREW Vancouver Sun Former premier Gordon Campbell has provided an affidavit to support an injunction to prevent the B.C. NDP from punishing private clinics and diagnostic facilities until a constitutional challenge is decided.

A new online tool has been launched in B.C. making it easier for residents to finalize a divorce. The Online Divorce Assistant Application helps those who are joint-filing their divorce, in cases without children.