B.C. News

Drivers have a new DriveBC webcam to consult before heading north on Highway 5, a useful tool as winter road conditions set in. The webcam is located at Lempriere, roughly 40 kilometres north of Blue River, looking south.

New loggers in the Prince George region are not expected to be habitual welfare recipients, even if they once were.

A new Surrey task force will analyze the alarming number of murders in 2013, and won’t repeat the work of a similar task force struck a decade ago in the city, Mayor Dianne Watts says. Watts and Surrey RCMP Supt.

Transportation officials believe the pilot of an ultralight plane that crashed near Abbotsford Monday night may have clipped a power line as he approached the airport in severe weather.

Four people are in custody in connection with the January 2012 murder of Fribjon Bjornson whose remains were found in an abandoned home on the Nak'azdli reserve adjacent to Fort St. James, North District RCMP said Monday.

Conversion of the downtown post office into an outlet with a single service window is proceeding as planned by Canada Post.

Efforts to collect a drug debt by force landed a 28-year-old former Dalhousie University student in jail for nine months. Khoda Sullivan pleaded guilty Monday to assault causing bodily harm for beating Duncan Rennie.

A $50-million Canadian Coast Guard cleanup operation is underway to extract hundreds of tonnes of fuel from a bomb-laden U.S. Army transport ship that sank in 1946 in Grenville Channel on B.C.’s remote north coast.

Plans are being readied to remove thousands of tonnes of sediment from the lake in the heart of Vancouver’s Stanley Park.

Two friends got into a fight over booze and one of them wound up with shotgun pellets in his leg, RCMP say. A 39-year-old man was shot in the leg in Tappen at about 1 a.m. on Saturday. Police were told that the shot was fired in self-defence.