B.C. News

A fire that destroyed a White Rock condominium complex under construction May 15 and forced the evacuation of another building was deliberately set, RCMP said Wednesday.

Some advocates and volunteers who work on and around Whalley’s “Strip” are concerned about a recent increase in bylaw enforcement in the area, which is forcing homeless people off the street and into the surrounding neighbourhood.

Andrea Stucchi counts her blessings.

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.