B.C. News

Backcountry hikers exploring Garibaldi Provincial Park near Whistler will soon have all the comforts of home as part of a multimillion-dollar plan to build three large huts with kitchens and composting toilets.

The City of Vancouver is investigating the operation of 17 short-term rental units in a Kitsilano apartment block. There are 17 Airbnb listings in the New York Apartments at 2341 York Ave. near Kitsilano Beach.

VANCOUVER — Frederic Wilson has a history in the drug trade that dates back more than 20 years.

A man convicted of hitting a Langley woman over the head with a rolling pin and then strangling her to death will be allowed to apply for parole seven years early. Glen Donald Ekman appeared in B.C.

A man who was charged with helping to smuggle 492 Tamils into Canada aboard a rickety vessel has been denied bail following a review of his case.

A Chinese bank is suing to freeze and recover the Metro Vancouver property assets of a Chinese citizen who allegedly “fled China” with an unpaid $10-million dollar loan. A petition filed in B.C.

Eleven B.C. residents have acquired travel-related Zika virus in the seven months since public health officials started testing for the mosquito-borne virus, including four pregnant women.

School is almost out, a time when teens traditionally bum dad’s car to drive to the beach or mall. But students in some B.C. towns are increasingly choosing to wait to get their driver’s licence — and the places this is occurring may surprise you.

ROCK CREEK — Every time Peri Best turns west from her new home in Grand Forks toward Rock Creek, she gets a little catch in her throat and her anxiety starts to rise again.

An NDP government in British Columbia would hike the minimum wage to $15 an hour, NDP leader John Horgan said Sunday. Horgan told a group of NDP campaigners in Kamloops that the raise would come in the NDP’s first term if elected next year.