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Last Updated: November 21 2009, 8:01 PM

Police in Abbotsford, B.C., are investigating a suspicious death near the Sumas border crossing after a man's body was found in a ditch Saturday afternoon.

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Residents of Duncan, B.C., rescued a car from the flooded streets Friday. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 21 2009, 5:33 PM

Vancouver Island floodwaters recede

The flood situation on Vancouver Island has improved dramatically as floodwaters recede, but officials warn more rain is on the way.

Last Updated: November 21 2009, 2:26 PM

Girl, 15, sexually assaulted in Port Coquitlam

Police in a Metro Vancouver suburb are investigating after a 15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted early Saturday morning.

Last Updated: November 21 2009, 2:42 AM

Canucks explode for 4-goal 3rd period

The Vancouver Canucks chased Colorado goalie Craig Anderson after two periods on Nov. 14 and followed up with five goals Friday night for their third win in a row over the Avalanche, 5-2 at General Motors Place.

A typical November street scene in southwestern B.C., this from Vancouver Island. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 21 2009, 12:22 AM

B.C. November wetter than usual

November is living up to its reputation as B.C.'s wettest month in the calendar year.

Police hope people who knew Roxanne Charlie will come forward with information that could help solve her slaying. (RCMP)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 11:17 PM

Police seek help in Surrey slaying

Homicide investigators have identified a Kelowna, B.C., mother who was gunned down at a Halloween party in Surrey and are asking for the public's help in solving the case.

An autopsy on Tempest Gale has found that she died as a result of homicide, police say. (MySpace)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 9:10 PM

Hornby Island death a homicide

The death of a woman on B.C.'s Hornby Island on Wednesday is now being investigated as a homicide, police say.

Memories of this scene on Dec. 22, 2008, might have prompted many Vancouver drivers to plan ahead. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 8:50 PM

Vancouver snow tire sales are hot

Lower Mainland tire stores say Vancouver drivers are pre-ordering winter tires in record numbers. Record snowfalls in December 2008 and January 2009 appear to be fresh in many car owners' memories.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 7:23 PM

Canada's Hollingsworth takes gold

Canadian Mellisa Hollingsworth captured her first World Cup gold medal of the season on Friday in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Bell is the last national provider to drop the system access fee. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 4:53 PM

Bell quietly drops system access fee

The cellphone system access fee is all but extinct. Bell Canada has quietly axed the charge, joining rivals Rogers and Telus.

Henry Lyatsky, a Calgary-based oil and mining industry consultant, says the `silent majority` in B.C. wants a moratorium on offshore oil exploration lifted. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 4:39 PM

The 10-billion-barrel battle

Henry Lyatsky wants B.C.'s coast opened to oil drilling but environmentalists stand opposed.

A Cowichan Valley resident takes a trip through town in his canoe. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 4:38 PM

Flooding forces Vancouver Island evacuations

Flood waters on the Cowichan River and Koksilah River have forced the evacuation of about 300 to 400 homes in the Cowichan Valley and Duncan area of southeast Vancouver Island, officials have confirmed.

Robert Knipstrom was face down and handcuffed for more than an hour before he had cardiac arrest, a coroner`s inquest was told. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 1:32 PM

Death linked to 'excited delirium': coroner

The death of a man who was stunned with a Taser several times during his arrest two year ago in Chilliwack was not the fault of police actions, a coroner's inquest has determined.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 12:37 PM

Anderson, Avs seek vengeance in Vancouver

Craig Anderson and the Colorado Avalanche look to avenge their worst defeat of this charmed season when they visit the Vancouver Canucks on Friday (10 p.m. ET).

Hendrik Hymans, owner of A to Z Home Inspection, says he expects his insurance costs to jump because of a B.C. Supreme Court ruling last week. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 12:14 PM

B.C. ruling worries Ottawa home inspectors

Ottawa home inspectors say a legal precedent in British Columbia threatens their livelihood and could make home inspections costlier.

An autopsy was scheduled Friday for Tempest Gale, whose body was found Wednesday. (MySpace)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 9:35 AM

Hornby Island death raises residents' fears

Some residents of Hornby Island in B.C.'s Strait of Georgia say the death of a popular local artist has heightened fears and concerns about the lack of police and mental health services in their community.

The body of Tempest Gale, a popular folk-punk performer on Hornby Island, was found at a local marina on Wednesday morning. (MySpace)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 12:59 AM

Police probe Hornby Island performer's death

The quiet community of Hornby Island, B.C., has been rocked by the death of a popular young performer, whose body was found floating at a local marina on Wednesday morning.

CBC News has learned the fraud may cost banks millions of dollars. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 9:49 PM

Massive B.C. fraud hits debit-card users

A massive debit-card fraud in B.C.'s Lower Mainland involves thousands of cards and possibly millions of dollars.

Some of the doda powder seized by RCMP in Surrey, B.C. The addictive substance is mixed with water as a tea. (RCMP)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 8:26 PM

Popular opium-like drug seized in B.C.

Police in Surrey say they have busted a large-scale drug lab in a shopping complex. The lab was producing "doda," a highly addictive substance made by grinding the seed pods of opium poppies and brewing the powder as a tea.

The Vancouver post office houses these bins of seized packages of phoney acai berry purchased online by Canadians. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 7:33 PM

Warnings issued about online drugs

The RCMP is warning people not to buy prescription drugs like Viagra online because they could not only be fake, but dangerous to your health.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 5:46 PM

Asthma common in kids with severe H1N1: study

Asthma seems to be a factor in how sick children get from the H1N1 flu, a review of Canadian pediatric cases suggests.

Everyone in British Columbia will be eligible for the swine flu vaccine, starting Friday. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 5:12 PM

All of B.C. eligible for H1N1 vaccine

All British Columbians will be eligible to get the H1N1 swine flu vaccine starting Friday, the province has announced.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 4:55 PM

Whistler blows away November snowfall record

The unrelenting series of storms pounding the West Coast has brought good news for skiers, dumping a record snowfall on at least one coastal ski resort.

New homes will be eligible for a tax rebate when B.C. adopts the HST next year. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 3:28 PM

B.C. hikes HST new housing rebate eligibility

The B.C. government is raising the maximum value for new homes that will get a rebate on the provincial portion of the coming HST.

Shaun Richard Funk, 35, was arrested by Regina police late Wednesday night. (Regina police)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 3:17 PM

B.C. sex assault suspect arrested in Regina

Regina police have arrested a man facing sexual assault charges in British Columbia.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 10:39 AM

Some B.C. ferry travellers face long waits

There were long line-ups at Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay on Thursday morning, after high winds shut down the BC Ferries route on Wednesday afternoon.

High winds and drenching rains might have stopped BC ferries but not this girls soccer practice in Vancouver Wednesday night. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 12:54 AM

High B.C. winds darken homes, cancel ferry sailings

Winds hitting 90 km/h blasted across southwestern B.C. on Wednesday night, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and cancelling ferry sailings between Vancouver Island and the mainland.

The cost to keep Olympic torchbearers safe is not being borne by Olympics organizers, instead local police forces are picking up the tab. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 12:34 AM

Torch run security burns into police budgets

It's costing a lot of money to keep the Olympic torch secure as it makes its way across the country, and the amount spent on policing while the relay was on Vancouver Island is once again raising questions about how much the 2010 games will cost B.C. taxpayers.

Robert Knipstrom was face down and handcuffed for more than an hour before his cardiac arrest, a coroner`s inquest has heard. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 12:06 AM

Man's medical treatment probed at B.C. inquest

A coroner's inquest jury in Chilliwack, B.C., heard testimony Wednesday that suggests that delays and improper handling in custody contributed to the 2007 death of a man following a violent confrontation with police.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 10:28 PM

B.C. First Nation approves private property rights

A northwestern B.C. First Nation has approved a revolutionary land reform deal, making it the first in Canada to approve private property rights.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 9:40 PM

BC Rail's future in doubt

British Columbia's transportation minister says the future of one of Canada's smallest railways is under review.

Telus says the new network it built with Bell and uses for the iPhone is not inferior to Rogers` and is suing Rogers for claiming in ads that its network is the most reliable. (Associated Press)

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 8:30 PM

Telus sues Rogers over advertised claims

A hotly contested battle for domination of Canada's cellphone and wireless telecommunications market is headed to B.C. Supreme Court.

Dr. Michael Mockovak, shown in a Seattle courtroom Wednesday, faces two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. (Courtesy of KING 5 TV Seattle)

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 7:27 PM

Eye surgeon pleads not guilty in alleged murder plot

A Washington state eye surgeon who co-owns laser eye clinics in Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria pleaded not guilty Wednesday to accusations he arranged to have his business partner and his former brother-in-law killed by Russian mobsters.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 6:24 PM

Swarming now seen as family intervention

A 48-year-old woman is recovering in hospital after police were told she was swarmed by a group of teenaged boys in an East Vancouver parking lot Tuesday. But Vancouver police now say the incident was apparently a family intervention.

More than 600 pets were buried at a pet cemetery in Surrey before it was sold in the 1990s. (Submitted by Kevin Woronchak)

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 2:39 PM

Push on to turn pet cemetery into park

The only pet cemetery in Greater Vancouver could eventually disappear under a developer's bulldozer, but some pet lovers are trying to have the property turned into a park.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 1:55 PM

Surrey chicken plant fire under control

A storage building at a poultry processing plant in Surrey, B.C, caught fire Wednesday morning, sending up a thick cloud of black smoke over the area, just east of Vancouver.

Vancouver police Const. Lindsay Houghton holds up the department`s medium-range acoustic device. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 12:21 PM

Vancouver police disable sonic weapon

Vancouver police say they have disabled the ability of a new piece of equipment so it can no longer be used as an acoustic weapon.

The Children`s Farmyard in Stanley Park could soon be shut down. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 12:09 PM

Vancouver petting zoo, conservatory face cuts

The Vancouver Park Board will take a second look at a plan to close the Stanley Park Children's Farmyard, the Bloedel Floral Conservatory and some community centre programs, after a large crowd attended a meeting to oppose the cuts.

Use of food banks, like the Surrey Food Bank here, hit record levels earlier this year in B.C. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 10:15 AM

B.C. minister defends poverty strategy

The B.C. government is defending its record fighting poverty and hunger in the wake of a report that says the number of people using food banks in the province has risen to record levels.

The swarms of small earthquakes of the B.C. coast are an indication of the constantly shifting plates beneath the Pacific that are building up tremendous energy. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 10:04 AM

Major B.C. quake could be worse than thought

The moderate earthquakes off the Queen Charlotte Islands Tuesday have many people once again wondering when the "big one" will hit the West Coast.