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The former mayor of Vernon, B.C., was sentenced Tuesday to nine months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of fraud and one of forgery.

The British Columbia government is reassuring critics that new high-tech driver’s licenses that can be used in place of passports at U.S. border crossings won’t contain deeply personal information about drivers.

The trial of accused kidnapper Robert Paul Lepage resumed Tuesday in Vernon, B.C., where he took the stand in his own defence.

Just weeks after he quit as executive chef of pricey Vancouver restaurants Lumiere and Feenie’s, Rob Feenie is back in the spotlight.

Police in the Victoria suburb of Saanich, B.C., have released more details about the homicide of a realtor who was found dead Saturday in a home she was showing to a potential buyer.

Another threat has been made against the University of British Columbia which means the RCMP will be on alert Wednesday at the Vancouver campus.

The Western Silviculture Contractors Association says it foresees a 25 per cent drop in the number of trees planted in B.C. this year.

North American stock markets tumbled on Tuesday after a key measurement of U.S. service sector activity unexpectedly contracted in January, ratcheting up recession fears.

Canada’s privacy watchdogs will meet Tuesday afternoon in Victoria to discuss security concerns, including new technology being used in enhanced driver’s licences.

Men are more rewarded by video games than women on a neural level, which explains why they’re more likely to become addicted to them, according to researchers at Stanford University.

The Vancouver Folk Music Festival has decided not to renew the contract of its longtime artistic director.

The legalization of drugs, including marijuana and heroin, is among the controversial solutions being offered at an international conference in Vancouver.

The Vancouver Canucks will need to dig deep to get back on the win wagon when they visit the high-flying Dallas Stars on Tuesday (8:30 p.m. ET).

Veteran Vancouver parks board commissioner Allan De Genova says he will seek the Vision Vancouver party’s nomination for mayor of Vancouver in the November 2008 civic election.

Recreational boaters who tie up in Vancouver’s False Creek harbour might lose their only refueling station as Imperial Oil prepares to shut down its seven Esso marine gas stations on the B.C. coast.

A gritty rock opera about homelessness in Vancouver’s troubled Downtown Eastside neighbourhood has been drawing standing ovations in one of the city’s tonier communities.

A Pacific storm is shutting down ferry service in B.C., cutting off power in some coastal areas and making conditions treacherous on northern highways

A British Columbia woman is facing an agonizing choice as she waits for the double lung transplant that could prolong her life.

Police in the Victoria suburb of Saanich, B.C., are focusing on a 911 call as they search for clues in the death of a 24-year-old real estate agent, whose body was found at a house she was showing on Saturday.

Police in the Victoria suburb of Saanich, B.C., are focusing on a 911 call as they search for clues in the death of a 24-year-old real estate agent, whose body was found at a house she was showing on Saturday.

Quarterback Jarious Jackson reached terms Monday on a new contract with the British Columbia Lions.

Customers of a bank in Burnaby, B.C. were pepper sprayed Monday by a brazen group of would-be robbers.

Vancouver fire Capt. Rob Jones-Cook says faulty electrical wiring caused a wood-frame house to go up in flames just after 5 a.m. PT Sunday.

The province will soon announce plans to build a facility for mentally ill patients on the Lower Mainland, according to Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan.

Some mental health experts say a new report by the Vancouver Police Department highlights a staggering gap in services for mentally ill people.

A major B.C. grocery chain wants some of its unionized staff to work shifts of just two hours, a move the union representing 8,500 workers called shocking.

Body armour manufacturer Pacific Safety Products Inc. is closing its remaining operations in Kelowna, B.C. and moving to Ottawa because of high housing costs and labour shortages, its co-founder says.

The theft of copper cable in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland area is causing headaches for telecommunications firm Telus Corp. and its customers as thieves try to cash in on the soaring value of scrap metal.

Vancouver’s fourth homicide this year - a 19-year-old man killed Saturday night in the city’s south side - was likely a targeted shooting, say police.

Tina Maze of Slovenia captured the gold by a long shot with a winning time of one minute, 44.38 seconds at Saturday’s women’s downhill World Cup event.