B.C. News

SURREY — A Surrey man wanted in the U.S.

A Surrey man with no links to an ongoing gang conflict has been identified as the victim of a fatal shooting Saturday. Staff Sgt.

B.C. isn’t the only jurisdiction seeking relief from high home prices blamed on an influx of speculative foreign money. Hong Kong instituted a 15-per-cent surcharge on non-residents buying into the city’s hyperactive residential market back in 2012.

A 15-per-cent additional property transfer tax payable by foreign buyers will likely have little effect on the sale of condos or apartments because few are sold to foreign buyers, according to local developers and realtors.

A Chinese property tycoon linked to a massive banking scandal in China’s industrial north is at the centre of more than $500 million in B.C. property deals, a joint investigation by Postmedia and global due diligence firm IPSA International shows.

“Winnie from the SeaBus” is not a Pokemon, but for a Pokemon hunter name Murray, she tops his most-wanted list. After a pleasant Pokemon-hunting encounter, Winnie and Murray went their separate ways.

Highest vacancy rates in the province. Falling rents. A look at Dawson Creek and Fort St. John's rental markets in the downturn.

Getting a bargain flight was the “biggest deciding factor, for sure,” for Emma Berg when booking a two-month European backpacking trip before her final year in nursing studies.

Ben Trimble’s Vancouver apartment block has had a bedbug problem for several years. So when a pest-control inspector arrived to look over his apartment, he let him in.

VANCOUVER — Many doctors and patients are concerned and confused after strict new prescribing standards were issued by the College of Physician and Surgeons of B.C. for narcotics and other addictive, potentially deadly drugs like sleeping pills.