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B.C.’s population is growing faster than the national average, with the cities of Surrey, Port Moody, Kelowna and Langford leading the way, according to the latest census data.

The B.C. government is embarking on a major restructuring of the province’s justice system, Premier Christy Clark has announced.

The B.C. government is taking steps to try to ensure that U.S. drivers pay their tolls on the new $3.3 billion Port Mann Bridge

A Vancouver family of five have been left homeless after a fire in their laundry room destroyed their home early Wednesday morning.

A documentary about the life of iconic flim star Bruce Lee – produced by a B.C. company – has premiered in Vancouver.

The outcome of a defamation lawsuit filed against former B.C. premier Bill Vander Zalm is now in the hands of a B.C. Supreme Court jury.

RCMP divers have recovered the body of a man who fell through the ice while cycling on a lake north of Kelowna, B.C.

A 52-year-old mine manager from a small northern B.C. town is more than $16 million richer, thanks to a jackpot win in the Lotto Max lotter last weekend.

The latest census figures show Canada’s population at 33.5 million, with more people continuing to migrate to the West.

Serial murderer Robert Pickton claimed in a 2000 video interview with police that we was the victim in a confrontation with a sex worker at his B.C. pig farm in 1997.

The lawyer for a female B.C. Mountie who accused her boss of sexual assault says RCMP disciplinary hearings should be subject to independent oversight.

The Langley School District is meeting with parents on Wednesday to talk about overcrowding in a school in the Willoughby neighbourhood.

Prince Rupert wants to be B.C.’s next natural gas hub, and is in talks with BG Group — the world’s second biggest natural gas developer — to make that happen.

Sooke’s fire chief is sounding the alarm over a possible serial arsonist on Vancouver Island, after five suspicious fires in four months.

Lawyers made closing arguments Tuesday in the defamation lawsuit against former B.C. premier Bill Vander Zalm, filed by the man whose inquiry led to Vander Zalm’s political downfall.

A collision west of Waterloo, Ont., has killed 11 people — including migrant workers — in what one veteran police officer described as the worst crash he has seen in nearly 30 years on the job.

A family in B.C. feels little comfort after Scouts Canada says it was wrong to welcome a man twice-convicted of sex offences against children back into an alumni association.

Two customers say the Bank of Montreal violated their privacy and trust by allowing sensitive financial information to get into the wrong hands, then failing to address their complaints.

The Maple Ridge-Pitt-Meadows School District says grief counsellors will be at local schools on Monday to help students deal with a fatal vehicle crash over the weekend.

A Vancouver man is facing four charges of sexual assault for incidents involving foreign exchange students who sublet rooms from him

The B.C. government will build a new Okanagan jail on land owned by the Osoyoos Indian Band north of Oliver.

A Cadet Instructors Cadre officer from Victoria has been charged with the sexual exploitation, sexual interference and sexual assault of two B.C. cadets.

A B.C. RCMP officer and his wife have been reunited with the young girl who they rescued from a car that had overturned in a water-filled ditch Friday.

The parents of a 15-year-old B.C. boy killed in a car crash say the court sentence handed to the young driver Monday is inadequate and unjust.

A former B.C. RCMP officer said he ordered surveillance on Robert Pickton more than three years before he was arrested, but the stakeout was limited to 30 days.

One of five young Vancouver men at the centre of a police appeal has been found alive and well, living in a small B.C. town under a different name.

A B.C. business delegation is in France this week to promote Jumbo Glacier Resort, a controversial year-round ski resort west of Invermere.

Finance Minister Kevin Falcon predicts the B.C. government will balance its books by the next fiscal year.

BC Ferries has cancelled all sailings between Comox and Powell River on Monday because of mechanical issues on the Queen of Burnaby.

A French citizen will appear in Richmond provincial court Tuesday to face charges of human smuggling.

A man has been killed in an avalanche that hit a large group of skiers Friday morning in southeastern British Columbia.

British Columbia is putting its energy future into exports of liquefied natural gas to Asia, Premier Christy Clark announced on Friday morning.

B.C.’s aboriginal relations minister led a delegation of business and First Nations leaders to Ottawa Friday, to make sure the federal government’s enthusiasm for oilsands exports doesn’t set back aboriginal treaties and economic development.

Funerals for two men killed while working at the Babine Forest Products mill on Jan. 20, will be held Friday and Saturday.

Kevin Bieksa tied the game with 34.1 seconds remaining in regulation and Mason Raymond scored the lone goal in the shootout as the Vancouver Canucks rallied for a 3-2 win over the struggling Colorado Avalanche on Saturday.

More than 600 protesters have taken to the streets of Prince Rupert, B.C., to oppose Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta’s oilsands to Kitimat, a port on the northern B.C. coast.