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Star Trek alumni William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy showed they can still draw a crowd when they took to the stage at the Sheraton Wall Centre as the main attractions at this weekend's three-day Star Trek convention.

One of Vancouver’s leading domain registrars is still grappling with how to approach news last week that .xxx has been given an official online domain designation for websites carrying pornographic content.

Canada’s population has passed the 34 million mark, according to Statistics Canada, and B.C. leads all provinces when it comes to growth.

Vancouver’s Cardiome Pharma Corp. (TSX:COM) saw its share price climb 8% Friday after the biotech company announced one of its drugs had been recommended for approval in the European Union (EU).

Could Vancouver’s biggest PR firm go the way of the dodo as the Wilcox Group – one of Vancouver’s most established PR firms – recently did? Patti Schom-Moffatt , founder of Vancouver’s Edelman Vancouver (formerly known as Karyo Edelman Communications

Bribery can be a common aspect of doing business when it comes to mining and exploration projects in many third world countries.

Vancouver’s largest gold miner, Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G), has been informed by the Guatemalan government that it is taking steps to shutter the company’s Marlin mine.

An agreement that gives Canada approved destination status (ADS) for Chinese travellers was one of many memoranda of understanding that Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Chinese President Hu Jintao signed in Ottawa June 24.

Vancouver-based Plenty of Fish was the third most visited dating site in the world in May, according to Internet research organization comScore Inc. Thus far the site’s audience has almost exclusively been online but that could start to change soon.

B.C. sold $404 million of natural gas and petroleum rights in June, adding to the ongoing rush of producers focused on unconventional gas plays in the province’s northeast.