B.C. News

VANCOUVER - Cory Schneider did not let a sub-par effort get him down for long.

SURREY, B.C. - The B.C. Liberals demanded the NDP fire its provincial secretary over letters the Liberals say amount to a "shakedown" of Liberal party supporters.

VANCOUVER - The urgency will be the same but the reasons will be different when the Detroit Red Wings clash with the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night at Rogers Arena.

VANCOUVER - New Democrat Leader Adrian Dix surrounded himself with parents and children Friday at a community centre to announce increases in welfare rates and a family bonus program as part of plan to fight poverty in British Columbia.

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia NDP has released a poverty-fighting plan it says will improve the lives of hundreds of thousands families in the province.

VANCOUVER - It's not the "did you inhale" question many politicians have been asked, but a lobby group will be questioning want-to-be politicians on their position over a regulated marijuana market in British Columbia.

VANCOUVER - The northern B.C. community of Fort Nelson — population 3,900 — could be left without a lawyer after the only one in town was suspended by the Law Society of B.C. for four months for dishonesty.

DAWSON CREEK, B.C.

VANCOUVER - After enduring a challenging Major League Soccer sophomore year in 2012, hard-working Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder Russell Teibert is just relieved to have finally cracked the starting line-up. The 20-year-old Niagara Falls, Ont.

VANCOUVER - There will be no black armbands or other dark keepsakes handed out at this year's Vancouver Sun Run as participants in Canada's largest road race pay homage to victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.