B.C. News

VANCOUVER - The Transportation Safety Board reiterated a call Monday for Transport Canada to put regulations in place for wheel safety inspections on rail cars, following a December 2011 derailment in northern B.C.

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Canucks goaltending controversy has taken another turn. Cory Schneider has been given the starting nod for Vancouver's home game against Calgary on Wednesday after a forgettable performance in the Canucks' season opener.

VANCOUVER - The reporter behind a newspaper article that accused former Vancouver Olympic CEO John Furlong of abusing students at a school in northern British Columbia four decades ago has included explosive new accusations in her statement of defenc

PARKSVILLE, B.C. - It's a cold, foggy and soggy Sunday morning, the kind of gun-metal grey that descends on Vancouver Island each winter and makes the explosion of colour from these most unlikely residents that much more startling.

BURNABY, B.C. - It was the first day of training for a new season, but first the Vancouver Whitecaps had to take care of some old business.

VANCOUVER - The Canadian Human Rights Commission has rejected a complaint filed by a Chinese miner against the United Steelworkers, over the union's vocal campaign against temporary foreign workers at a coal mine in northeastern British Columbia.

VANCOUVER - The passenger ferry that sank off the coast of British Columbia seven years ago, leaving two passengers missing, had recently returned to service after five months of upgrades and was probably in the best condition of its life, a crew mem

VANCOUVER - A B.C. First Nation has asked the Federal Court to stop Canada from ratifying an investment treaty with China until it and other bands have been consulted.

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's transit police have been forced to explain how an inert explosive device used in a dog-training exercise was left on an Air Canada airplane that then flew to Toronto.

VANCOUVER - The Crown will appeal a B.C. Supreme Court decision that struck down a section of the federal government's human smuggling law. Prosecutor Peter LaPrairie told B.C.