B.C. News

VANCOUVER - With more than a million tonnes of debris from the Japanese tsunami floating toward North American shores and beaches, a new app is encouraging members of the public to become "citizen scientists" and help track the wreckage as it arrives

VANCOUVER — Public confidence in the RCMP’s leadership dropped “significantly” across the country during the past five years, according to a new Ipsos Reid poll. And British Columbians have the most negative view of the force in Canada.

VANCOUVER — A West Vancouver man is dead and another in critical condition after carbon monoxide built up in a marina boathouse on the Sunshine Coast on Sunday.

VANCOUVER — The City of Vancouver has issued an extreme weather alert, freeing shelter beds for the homeless in the event temperatures drop below zero this week.

NANAIMO, B.C. - Randy Weflen runs his palm over the curves of a wooden surfboard, feeling the rough edges that still need polishing.

SURREY — A sentence of just over three years in prison has been handed to a woman who pleaded guilty for the drunk-driving crash that killed a promising 22-year-old softball player in Surrey.

PRINCE GEORGE — In the lead-up to the holiday season, B.C. Justice Minister Shirley Bond asked her husband, Bill, what he wanted for Christmas. The answer she received wasn’t something she could buy, make or provide — but he got it anyway.

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VANCOUVER — The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the operators of an apartment complex in Campbell River to build a ramp so a disabled tenant can get into the building more easily.

VANCOUVER — The family of a 36-year-old woman who was shot to death in a Chicago parking lot in April 2011 is suing the website that allegedly helped her killer, a Surrey man, buy the murder weapon.