B.C. News

Catherine Lloyd knows the power of nature when she looks off into the forest from her idyllic North Vancouver backyard.

White Rock resident Pat Watkins lost her home and has a husband in hospital with a broken leg due to a massive fire in downtown White Rock on Sunday. Watkins and husband Bruce evacuated their Ocean Ridge building at about 5 a.m.

American retailers are hoping cross-border shopping incentives — such as offering discounts and accepting the Canadian dollar at par — will entice Canadians to make the journey south this May long weekend, despite the weak dollar.

Paddling anti-pipeline activists formed a flotilla Saturday at the Kinder Morgan terminal in Burnaby. The protest was part of “Break Free from Fossil Fuels,” a global day of action co-ordinated in Canada by Greenpeace Canada and 350.

Fire crews have begun planned burn-offs to help contain Siphon Creek and Beatton Airport Road wildfires, the largest in the Peace Region at 58,630 hectares and 15,000 hectares, respectively. Click here for a map of wildfires in B.C.

When it comes to discretionary income, millennials living in Vancouver fare far worse than their counterparts across the country.

The mastermind of a $300-million penny stock swindle has pleaded guilty in New York and will, as part of the deal, give up his ownership of two valuable B.C. properties. Gregg R. Mulholland, a dual Canadian/U.S.

The Westcoast Express trains were delayed this morning after one of the trains hit a bear. TransLink says trains 4 and 5 heading westbound and terminating at Waterfront are delayed by about 35 minutes because of train 4 “making contact with a bear.

Despite cooler, wet weather throughout the Peace over the weekend, authorities caution the wildfires are still burning strong, and with a return to warm temperatures this week they could still see some growth.

Northern B.C., like the rest of the province, is grappling with an expected wave of retiring doctors, even as the region struggles to recruit and retain physicians to address ongoing shortages. Doctors of B.C.