B.C. News

VANCOUVER — A competitive mixed martial arts fighter known as “Ruthless” Ryan Chiappe has been banned from Prince George and is facing 10 criminal charges including assault and the theft of a puppy. In the early morning hours of Dec.

Libby Davies, the Downtown Eastside activist who found herself catapulted into Ottawa as a federal Member of Parliament, is calling it quits after 40 years of public service.

Homicide detectives have been called in after a 15-year-old boy died from injuries sustained in a group assault early Saturday. Police have identified the victim as Dario Bartoli. Staff Sgt.

Crowds gathered excitedly at high tide Wednesday morning to watch the waves and wind lash the Tsawwassen waterfront in Boundary Bay, but Delta municipal officials reported no further major breaches of residential seawalls.

The eastbound side of the Trans-Canada Highway is closed near Hope because of a rock slide, but is expected to be fully open later this morning.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Rapper Earl Warren Hayes and his estranged wife were trying to reconcile and she was optimistic about their chances only days before Hayes killed her and committed suicide, a police detective said Tuesday.

A Vancouver-born dancer and reality TV actress was found dead in a Los Angeles apartment Monday, killed in an apparent murder-suicide, according to police.

Three B.C. plants have been declared endangered by a federal advisory panel of scientists.

Three months after their contract was settled, the province’s 41,000 teachers should begin receiving their grievance fund cheques this week. “We’re doing the cheque printing this week and the mail out will begin,” said B.C.

Newfoundland, Ontario dealing with much larger increases, but B.C. has still a ‘substantial’ problem, expert says