B.C. News

The money is part of a $32.5-billion Canadian settlement between JTI-Macdonald Corp., Rothmans, Benson & Hedges and Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. and their creditors.

VICTORIA — Another earthquake has shaken Victoria, becoming at least the third felt in British Columbia's capital in less than two weeks. Earthquakes Canada says the magnitude 3.9 earthquake occurred about 58 kilometres south of Victoria, at 4:18 p.

VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver say an officer on patrol was slashed on the leg with an "edged weapon" in the city's Downtown Eastside.

CHILLIWACK, B.C. — RCMP in Chilliwack, B.C., say a three-year-old child has died in a "tragic motor vehicle collision." Police say the child was a pedestrian at the intersection of Vedder and Petewawa roads when he or she was hit on Wednesday.

Iain Hunt, the husband for Port Moody murder victim Trina Hunt, was scheduled to appear at BC Provincial Court in Port Coquitlam Wednesday morning on a charge of indignity to human remains.

PARKSVILLE, B.C. — Police say it was "miraculous" that no one was killed in a head-on collision that destroyed two vehicles near Parksville, B.C. A statement from B.C.

Scott Ian McKay, 62, who works part time as a construction safety officer in the Lower Mainland, was granted another six months under special conditions, including not to own or operate a vehicle

Former B.C. finance minister Mike de Jong says he's been told by the Conservative Party of Canada that he is no longer in the running to be a candidate for the party in the next federal election.

Police are negotiating with a distaught individual

SURREY, B.C. — British Columbia's Homicide Investigation Team has been deployed to Surrey after a fatal "targeted, brazen shooting" earlier this week.