B.C. News

VANCOUVER — On a coveted corner of Vancouver’s Golden Mile, one man’s modern masterpiece is another man’s modern monstrosity. The house at 3691 Point Grey Rd.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia farmers will no longer need a permit from the Agricultural Land Commission to host agritourism events such as weddings and concerts on their farms, it was announced Tuesday.

Even though White Rock weightlifter Christine Girard is over the moon about the prospect of trading her 2012 London Olympic Games bronze medal for gold, she has mixed feelings about the reasons for the exchange.

Excessive clutter is a serious health and fire hazard in Vancouver single room occupancy hotels, according to a UBC study published Thursday in the journal Housing Studies.

Health ministry investigators are aware of more than two dozen so-called birth houses in B.C.

VANCOUVER — A man notoriously known as the “Balaclava Rapist” has been released on day parole in the Vancouver area, following a 2013 curtailed release in Victoria. It remains unknown exactly where Larry Takahashi, now 63, will reside.

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.