BC Ferries cancelled a number of sailings on the Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay route as the long weekend got underway Friday due to mechanical issues, including a hoped-for return to service at 4 p.m. PT.

The federal government has confirmed it will close three coast guard communication centres in Vancouver, Comox and Tofino by 2015. This follows news Thursday that would also close the Kitsilano lifeboat station in Vancouver.

The B.C. government says it will consider options for a ban on the sale of voracious snakehead fish after at least one of the so-called Frankenfish was reported sighted in a Burnaby pond.

Rick Hansen revisited and reconquered a formidably steep hill in Port Moody, B.C., on Friday that was one of the toughest challenges of his Man in Motion tour 25 years ago, as the CBC’s Deborah Goble reports.

B.C. Premier Christy Clark’s rebuke this week of the Angus Reid polling firm is shocking and unprecedented, a company spokesman says.

Three fishermen stranded on a B.C. island for 10 days after their boat sank have been rescued.

The man once considered China’s most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight in Vancouver.

B.C.’s Minister of Education says he will fire the Cowichan School Board if it insists on submitting the $3.7 million deficit budget it passed Wednesday night.

A salmon farm site north of Tofino operated by Mainstream Canada has been quarantined by CFIA, after the discovery of IHN, a highly contagious and lethal fish virus that wreaked havoc on the industry ten years ago

European fire ants are turning up in B.C. gardens for the first time since arriving in North America 100 years ago.