B.C. News

VANCOUVER — Before his owners started dosing him with a daily drop of marijuana, Garfield the cat’s nine lives were rapidly running out.

Thousands of modern-day hippies are preparing to descend on a remote park on northern Vancouver Island for a month, but local authorities did not find out about the gathering until Facebook postings appeared this week.

If you think you’re seeing more seagulls perched in downtown Victoria rather than soaring over the Salish Sea, you’re right.

Four years after disastrous sockeye runs on the Fraser River spurred the federal Cohen Commission, fisheries managers in Canada and the U.S. are waiting anxiously to see how returns will fare this summer for that same cycle of salmon.

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.