B.C. News

A couple accused of screaming bigoted and obscene taunts at their neighbours and smearing dog feces on doors in their Burnaby condo complex have been ordered to fork over thousands of dollars in unpaid strata fines.

VICTORIA — B.C. cabinet ministers will no longer be able to delay the release of public records through deliberate stalling or inaction, as part of changes coming to the province’s Freedom of Information system, The Vancouver Sun has learned.

A home is so much more than its mortar, bricks and wooden beams. That’s no revelation. But some homes harbour more history than most and the 94-year-old English Tudor residence at 1550 West 29th St. in Vancouver’s tony Shaughnessy is one of them.

A pilot walked away from a crash landing Sunday near the Abbotsford Airport with no serious injury.

Camp has become health and safety hazard, utility says

At the three care facilities in B.C.

SEATTLE — A man accused of torturing a woman to death but found too mentally ill for trial was on the loose Thursday after crawling out a window in a locked, lower-security unit of a Washington state psychiatric hospital already facing federal scruti

New data from B.C.’s Seniors Advocate shows residents in the majority of care homes in the province are still being prescribed anti-depressants and anti-psychotics without having a diagnosis for those ailments. It has been a priority in B.C.

Osoyoos police say they are “dumbfounded” by the behaviour of hockey parents involved in a drunken brawl at a youth tournament Saturday.

Police are investigating after a bullet hole was discovered in a window of the Surrey RCMP’s Guildford station.