B.C. News

VANCOUVER - Ignoring a sea of taunts and threats of violence, Victoria Pearson waded into the 2011 Stanley Cup riot and appealed to the conscience of one wild-eyed young man stuffing a handkerchief into the gas tank of a parked car.

VANCOUVER - A government lawyer is attempting to walk back comments from a federal cabinet minister who publicly suggested a mining company may not have followed the rules when it obtained permits to bring 201 Chinese miners to a project in northern

VANCOUVER - A three-person inshore rescue team will be set up at the Canadian Navy auxiliary's base in Stanley Park once the Coast Guard station in Kitsilano is closed later this year, the federal government announced Wednesday.

VANCOUVER - The U.S. Department of Transportation has ordered a Coquitlam, B.C., tour bus company involved in a fatal crash to get off American roads because of its "continuing and flagrant" safety failures and violations.

VICTORIA - The Opposition New Democrats say an NDP government would get rid of the standardized tests that the teachers' union has fought against for years, but the party's education critic says they'll be replaced by some other kind of province-wide

VANCOUVER - Biologists have discovered that a species of fast-flying male wasp uses some smooth moves to build harems of female lovers.

VANCOUVER - The Justice Ministry in B.C. has issued an unusual public warning about a female, high-risk violent offender who's been released from jail.

VANCOUVER - The waiting is about to end for Jim Vandermeer.

VANCOUVER - A former beauty queen whose crowning as Miss Congeniality made her one of the highest-profile suspects in Vancouver's Stanley Cup riot has pleaded guilty, and her lawyer has suggested the woman's international notoriety has gone far beyon

VANCOUVER - A 33-year-old convicted arsonist with a long criminal past has been sentenced to almost 12 years in prison for dousing a Vancouver home with gasoline and lighting it on fire, killing two men inside.