Economy, Law & Politics

A B.C. Supreme Court judge gave a Richmond real estate and immigration lawyer another chance to avoid jail for contempt of court. Justice Gordon Weatherill had threatened Oct.

VANCOUVER — The B.C. New Democrat's newly minted leader and premier-in-waiting is promising "significant action" to bolster the province's affordable housing, health care system, public safety and the environment.

To counter increased risks to flooding, the B.C. government wants to improve flood maps, plan for community retreat in high-risk areas, and open up natural floodplains to give water a place to go. It's calling on public input for the new plan.

Vancouverites should keep their umbrella on deck for the next several days. The Metro Vancouver weather forecast includes a chance of precipitation nearly every day this week following weeks of unseasonably dry and hot conditions.

A transnational drug criminal from Vancouver, who was linked by police to a notorious underground Richmond bank, was sentenced to 14-and-a-half years in a U.S. prison Thursday.

Canada may have the longest total coastline in the world, but it still doesn’t have a solid understanding of the role nearshore ecosystems can play in sinking greenhouse gas emissions to combat the climate crisis, marine ecologist Julia Baum says.

More than half of millennials rate baby boomers as the least environmentally conscious generation.

The newly elected mayor of Squamish is taking Internet domain name firm Go Daddy Domains Canada Inc. to court to unmask the owner of a website behind an alleged smear campaign in the run-up to the 2022 municipal elections.

The 32 COVID-19 deaths up until Oct. 15 is highest total since Aug. 27

At the start of June, a manager with the company hired to dismantle and remove the stranded barge from Sunset Beach estimated the cost of the job at $2.4 million.