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.

Even the wind co-operated at this normally blustery naval station, remaining calm as David Beckham lit a celebratory cauldron and signaled the start of the 2012 London Olympics torch relay.

Jason Dufner birdied four of the last five holes Friday for a 4-under 66 and a one-stroke lead after the second round of the Byron Nelson Championship.

Even though the Vancouver Canucks have been on the sidelines for a month now, they can take solace in a couple of matters that have transpired since the Los Angeles Kings eliminated them in the first round.