B.C. News

Update: Voting hours at four of Vancouver's 117 voting locations have been extended. Vancouver's chief election officer has directed that Killarney Community Centre will remain open a further 15 minutes to 8:15 p.m.

VANCOUVER — A group of Vancouver parents is taking the Vancouver School Board to court in a bid to quash a controversial policy that provides more support for transgender students.

VANCOUVER — They are described in the video caption as a group of “bro” type “idiots” from Vancouver. Once the camera starts rolling, it becomes pretty clear why. The video, posted online on Monday at the media site LiveLeak.

VANCOUVER — Radiation from Fukushima in Japan has been detected off the coast of North America at amounts thousands of times lower than acceptable levels in drinking water.

VANCOUVER — A stealthy selfie has turned a B.C. woman into an instant Internet sensation. At one million views and counting, the “selfie with a squirrel” Internet posting by Stacey Wallace is international news.

VICTORIA — B.C. MLAs voted Wednesday to write directly to the RCMP to try to get definitive answers about a police investigation into Speaker Linda Reid.

Most social workers have far more than the recommended 20 cases

Environment Canada has issued two weather warnings for Metro Vancouver today as rain, lightning and wind gusts of up to 90 kilometres an hour are expected to lash the region.

The vast majority of B.C. social workers are juggling caseloads far above recommended numbers, and that is putting the lives of vulnerable children at risk, according to a report to be released today.

Heavy rain and a lack of snowpack on the North Shore mountains led to a torrent of water rushing down the mountainside Monday night, overflowing several creeks and flooding more than a dozen homes in the Lynn Valley neighbourhood, according to a weat