B.C. News

VICTORIA — The caucus chair for British Columbia's official opposition has defected to the BC Conservatives, adding to BC United's woes ahead of the provincial election next fall.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's government is tripling a program that offers free air conditioners to people with low incomes as forecasters say the province should prepare for hotter-than-normal temperatures in June.

The Port Alberni Fire Department issued a notice to vacate the Port Hotel this week after the owner failed to fix fire-code violations

Director of civil forfeiture alleges the properties have been used for criminal activity.

The drivers could also be on the hook for any environmental damage to the protected Nanaimo River estuary

VANCOUVER — The British Columbia Court of Appeal has cut damages awarded to a woman who was misdiagnosed with breast cancer and underwent an unnecessary mastectomy. It reduced the amount awarded to the woman by a B.C.

Mayor Leonard Krog says it’s an example of the increasingly poor behaviour seen at council meetings across the country

Hayden Chokrev-Evans’ violent attack on the woman he met on a dating app included choking, putting a pillow over her face and bashing her head into a wall

Council voted unanimously to kibosh a rezoning allowing more coach houses and suites on about 200 properties

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The mayor of Kamloops will no longer speak for the city, after council passed a resolution stripping him of his position as its official spokesman.