B.C. News

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.

COQUITLAM — Pokémon Go enthusiasts wandering around Coquitlam looking for significant sites in the hit game may find themselves at a surprising location.

B.C.’s finance minister says he wants regular audits of MLA constituency offices and a move away from bulk monthly payments of public money, after an alleged fraud at a taxpayer-funded MLA’s office in Victoria.

VICTORIA — British Columbia’s thriving real estate market has helped the provincial government post a budget surplus of more than double the original forecast, Finance Minister Mike de Jong said Thursday.

A 79-year-old man from the Williams Lake-area is expected to make a full recovery after he was mauled by a black bear Sunday.