B.C. News

VANCOUVER — A Surrey man who shot a university student in a case of mistaken identity has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Prince George RCMP have arrested a 32-year old man suspected in multiple car thefts after a foot chase on Friday morning. According to a media statement issued by police, the suspect was spotted near 5th Ave. and Hwy. 97 at 7 a.m.

British Columbia’s fight against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is heading to court with the New Democrat government seeking affirmation that it has the right to protect its environment from the threat of a heavy oil spill.

VANCOUVER — An elderly West Vancouver woman has been defrauded of more than $800,000 in a new bank inspector scam.

SURREY — Charges have been laid against a British Columbia man who allegedly trafficked more than 100 kilograms of drugs between the United States and Canada. RCMP Chief Supt.

VANCOUVER — Confusion over the province’s new child care plan and how it will impact private facilities has led to limited “buy-in” from daycare providers so far, said a spokeswoman for the B.C. Child Care Owners Association.

When Selina Robinson agreed in 1999 to carry a friend's baby, doctors did not do surrogacies in B.C. so she travelled to Calgary to have the embryos implanted. Today, surrogacies are far more common, thanks to an increase in demand from same-sex couples and infertile women. As a result, a debate is raging about whether Canada should change its laws to allow surrogates, as well as egg and sperm donors, to be paid, as they are in the U.S.

VANCOUVER — Driving through Stanley Park one morning, Vancouver park board biologist Nick Page came across a bizarre scene. Cars were abandoned haphazardly along the roadside as a crowd of people ran toward the seawall.

VANCOUVER — Three gangsters on trial for the 2011 murder of Red Scorpion leader Jonathan Bacon are expected to plead guilty to lesser charges when their trial resumes on May 1, Crown spokesman Dan McLaughlin confirmed Friday.

VANCOUVER — A skateboarder died Friday after a collision with a semi-trailer truck near the Queensborough Bridge in New Westminster. The incident occurred at 1:30 p.m, at a crosswalk underneath the Queensborough Connector, police said.