B.C. News

VANCOUVER — For hours, the rain pelted down. And when it mercifully stopped, the last thing on the minds of 45 hikers with Nature Vancouver was that further down the mountain, mudslides had severed their vehicle access back to civilization.

A tanker truck carrying 35,000 litres of jet fuel in the Slocan Valley has overturned on Highway 6, spilling its load into Lemon Creek.

VANCOUVER — Vancouver police are investigating the suspicious death of a woman in her 20s who fell from the 13th floor of a downtown apartment building on Howe Street just after 5 p.m. Sunday.

Firefighters worked hard Sunday to contain a wildfire in Kalamoir Regional Park in West Kelowna that is believed to have been caused by fireworks.

A Hells Angel from Saskatoon is in hospital with a serious head injury, after riding his motorcycle off the highway and into a rock wall near Hope Sunday while driving home from three chapters’ 30th anniversary party in Langley.

A Calgary newspaper columnist is defending her column, which has drawn harsh criticism on social media, in which she blamed Glee actor Cory Monteith’s death on Insite, Vancouver’s supervised drug-injection site.

When she checked Facebook that morning, there were messages waiting. “Nice pictures.” “How classy, you mutt.” There were others, too, that she remembers but won’t repeat.

White Rock jogger Anita Lewis was looking right when a train was coming from the left and died in that “unfortunate second of time,” a family friend said Tuesday.

VANCOUVER — B.C. forest firms are still struggling to properly clean up wood dust, according to inspection reports. Such dust was cited as the fuel source for two deadly mill explosions last year.

VANCOUVER — Another arrest has been made in the 2008 shooting deaths of Mission’s Lisa Dudley and her boyfriend, Guthrie McKay, according to the RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team. Spokeswoman Sgt.