B.C. News

For more than two years, a man who calls himself Paul Rooney sat in a Maple Ridge prison while border agents tried to figure out exactly who he was and where he came from.

NEW WESTMINSTER — Two men have been found guilty of armed robbery, unlawful confinement and break-and-enter in connection with a marijuana grow rip at a rented house in Cloverdale last year.

VICTORIA — Premier Christy Clark has recruited a prominent business leader to run in Surrey in the May provincial election. Former Coastal Capital Savings CEO Tracy Redies will be the B.C.

First came the provincial government’s reintroduction of Roosevelt elk from the Sunshine Coast to a series of wilderness watersheds from the Squamish River Valley to Harrison Lake.

Drastic reductions to certain hunts, prescribed burns and collaring predators are all on the table to help manage Northeast B.C.’s struggling moose populations, the B.C. government says.

In a $634,000 deal, the City of Vancouver will purchase the Historic Joy Kogawa House from The Land Conservancy of B.C. (TLC) as the non-profit land trust continues to sell properties to rid itself of crippling debt.

Linda Ledbetter has lived through Watergate, hanging chads, the birther movement, but never did she dream she’d see an American presidential election like the 2016 campaign. “Never, ever, ever,” the Arkansas native said.

B.C. kindergartners are more often struggling with emotional vulnerability, according to a report released Wednesday by University of B.C. researchers.

Promises of pipelines and LNG plants in northern B.C. have some landowners seeing gold, but housing advocates warn that the prospect of a boom is causing housing problems for seniors and other vulnerable people.

OTTAWA — A Trudeau government-supported motion to be voted on this week includes only “platitudes” to deal with the serious and growing problem of derelict vessels on Canada’s coastline, according to the NDP.