B.C. News

People in the small northern B.C. community of Granisle say they are stunned by the deaths of a mother and her adult son who were shot by police Thursday, apparently after a dispute among neighbours.

VANCOUVER — The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. has been called in to investigate a death on Salt Spring Island after a man who was found unresponsive by police later died.

Outlooks for Men has joined forces with WorkBC and GT Hiring Solutions to suit up men who are unemployed and living in poverty in order to help them make a strong impression at job interviews.

A Chinese-language website run by a Shanghai-based company is listing and arranging tours of Vancouver residential properties, and splitting commission fees with local agents. Vanfun.com gives its users a jump.

The first two Peace Region wildfires of the season are under control near Moberly Lake, the B.C. Wildfire Service says.

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