B.C. News

Three women who fraudulently helped more than 1,600 immigrants become Canadian citizens or permanent residents were jailed and fined on Tuesday after pleading guilty to fraud worth $10 million in the largest immigration fraud case in B.C.’s history.

The latest weekly B.C. election tracking poll shows the gap closing between the governing B.C. Liberals and the NDP Opposition in Metro Vancouver and the Greens making gains, especially on Vancouver Island.

Evangelical Christians are leaning strongly toward the B.C. Liberals in the next election. The large numbers of British Columbians who say they are “not religious” are far more likely to opt for the front-running NDP, with some favouring the Greens.

VANCOUVER — Tyrell Michael Sinnott was identified Monday as the victim of a fatal shooting in Langley on Saturday afternoon. The Surrey resident was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Sandman Hotel in the 8800-block of 201 Street about 2 p.

Six kilometres due west of Wreck Beach and the University of British Columbia lies a mysterious federal marine disposal site — the largest and oldest in Canada — where vast amounts of dredged and excavated material are dumped each year.

VICTORIA — B.C. politicians are well into their re-election campaigns, but there’s one last, unpleasant bit of business left to land in the legislature.

Gasoline prices are climbing toward historic highs in the Lower Mainland. Prices were as high as $1.42.9 at dozens of gas stations Sunday from Vancouver to Surrey, Coquitlam and Maple Ridge.

There’s gold in them thar hills and Darrel Davis believes he’s found a whack of it in the hard-rock ore of the Selkirk Mountains near Trout Lake.

Poverty is not cheap. It costs B.C. an estimated $9 billion each year. It would take only two-thirds that amount to eliminate poverty by raising incomes, advocates say. “Half of the poor in B.C.

Elderly residents, including two who are over 100 years old, recently evicted from the Terraces on 7th in Vancouver should be allowed to continue living there for life and all contracts with retirement homes should have attrition clauses, two NDP MLA