B.C. News

VANCOUVER — The only man convicted in the 1985 Air India bombing no longer has to stay in a halfway house and can now live at his family home, the Parole Board of Canada has ruled.

A B.C. woman who was fired after 24 years of working at Burger King for taking home a fish sandwich combo without paying has been awarded $46,000 for wrongful dismissal.

Thousands of chickens were killed after a large barn fire broke out in Abbotsford Monday. The fire started around 6:30 a.m. at a poultry farm in the 4300-block Tolmie Road on the Sumas Prairie.

Volunteer firefighters and search and rescue members will get a $3,000 tax credit, the B.C. government announced Saturday. The province plans to introduce the tax credit — which would provide a benefit of up to $151.

As the U.S. president tries to close his borders to refugees from Iraq and Syria, an Abbotsford company’s refugee employees from those countries are building high-end doors and windows destined for sale in the U.S.

Premier Christy Clark apologized Friday to B.C. NDP Leader John Horgan for claiming his party hacked the B.C. Liberal website and stole personal information.

If there were ever a better reason to throw your hands in the air and just stay home, this would be it. Heavy rain hit B.C.’s South Coast Thursday morning, likely to be followed by icy, slippery roads and localized flooding.

Vancouver police have issued a public warning following two apparently random attacks in Stanley Park that left one man dead and another seriously hurt.

District of Taylor councillors are meeting tonight to decide whether to fund doctor visits to the community next month and convene emergency meetings with health officials in an effort to keep the district's only medical clinic open.

Care homes in B.C. are giving antipsychotic medications to too many seniors who haven't been diagnosed with psychosis, and that may be responsible for aggression and injuries among the elderly, according to the province's seniors advocate.