B.C. News

Vancouver International Airport scared a record more than one million birds away from runways last year in a ramped-up effort to reduce the number of times airplanes hit birds. The airport moved almost 1.

B.C.’s representative for children and youth is refusing to sit on a new advisory council for child welfare, saying it would undermine her office’s independence.

OTTAWA – More than 200 Canadian academics called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Tuesday to order B.C. Hydro to halt construction of the $8.8 billion Site C project.

In 1978, Alan Truong left his small village in Vietnam in a nine-metre boat crowded with nearly 100 refugees.

A promotion at Bellingham’s Bellis Fair Mall in which some stores are taking the Canadian dollar at par will be offered again during the Canada Day long weekend in July.

B.C. is moving to an annual program that tests the safety of school drinking water, but it still falls short of a more aggressive law in place in Ontario.

VANCOUVER — The federal government is recommending regulations that would require all passengers and crew on commercial floatplanes to wear inflatable life-vests during flights over water.

Two people have died after a crash overnight in Surrey involving at least three vehicles. Surrey RCMP received multiple 911 calls around 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning, reporting a serious car crash at the intersection of 88 Avenue and 152 Street.

The first time Angela Ramos travelled Burma Road, she was shocked to see all the crosses.

Housing activists used paint brushes Saturday to illustrate their disappointment in a lack of welfare-rate housing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Protesters assembled for a "paint-in" on a lot at 58 W. Hastings St.