B.C. News

HALFMOON BAY — The floatplane lost a propeller in mid-flight, chopping into both pontoons, but RCMP say the pilot still managed to make a safe but powerless landing.

SURREY — Police have identified a husband and wife found dead in a Surrey, B.C., home last week.

It’s officially the first day of summer and all weather warnings have been lifted in B.C. after rain and storms walloped parts of the province this week, causing mudslides and highway closures.

It is a “seriously problematic” course of action for the city to pursue any path that would interfere with the treaty rights of the Snuneymuxw in regards to the Colliery dams, said Chief Doug White of the Snuneymuxw First Nation on Tuesday.

VANCOUVER — An airborne assault will begin this fall in the ongoing war to rid important bird-nesting islands of non-native rats in Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve. As part of a five-year, $2.

NANAIMO — Fisheries and Oceans Canada says biologists have spotted a rare, endangered whale in British Columbia waters for the first time in more than 60 years. North Pacific right whales were abundant between B.C.

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver teacher who duct taped some of her students’ mouths for talking in class has been reprimanded by the B.C. Teacher Regulation Branch.

Anne Belanger shed many tears this week, overwhelmed by the public support she got after speaking out about an insensitive class photo that showed her young son in his wheelchair separated from his classmates.

Victoria MLAs landed key critic jobs Friday as NDP Leader Adrian Dix shuffled his shadow cabinet following the party’s defeat in the B.C. election.

When Anne Belanger received her son’s grade two class photo last month, she immediately stuffed the image back into its envelope in disgust. In the photo, the students and teacher line up neatly in three rows.