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Business in Vancouver reporter Joel McKay has won a Jack Webster Award – B.C.'s top journalistic honour – for the newspaper's four-part series on the proposed Prosperity mine near Williams Lake.

Provincial governments have liberalized B.C.’s liquor regulations through the decades, but plenty of quirky regulations continue to surprise and frustrate restaurant owners and caterers.

An unexpected walkout of union employees has halted construction work at Vancouver-based Fortress Paper Ltd .’s Fortress Specialty Cellulose Mill in Thurso, Quebec, the company announced this morning.

The Conference Board of Canada has yet to follow the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver ’s (REBGV) lead and describe Vancouver’s housing market as a “buyer’s market.” The conference board maintains the Vancouver housing market is “balanced.

On Friday, government officials and community members gathered to celebrate the opening of the new Metro Vancouver Sustainability Academy at the Annacis Wastewater Centre.

While month-to-month price changes have been minor in recent months, September’s 0.2% increase was the highest since March.

AgriMarine Norway AS , the licensing arm of Vancouver-based AgriMarine Holdings Inc . (TSX-V:FSH), is on the verge of finalizing its first sales in Norway.

Chief negotiators for Canada, B.C. and the Tla’amin First Nation have initialed a final agreement on a treaty that includes self-government, cash and land transfers.

Canada Post has chosen Bird Design-Build Construction Inc. to design and build a new regional processing facility at the Vancouver International Airport in Richmond.

In the wake of last year’s sled dog killings, the province is requiring any sled dog company receiving Crown land tenure to have its dogs inspected annually. The inspections will be carried out by a licensed veterinarian or a constable from the B.C.