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Investigators with the Transportation Safety Board are being sent to Vancouver Island to determine why thick smoke suddenly filled the cabin of a commuter plane travelling to Nanaimo, B.C.

Photo BRUCE STOTESBURY, TIMES COLONIST A Victoria gang member has been sentenced to two years in prison for stabbing a teenage stranger who wore the wrong coloured sweater to a party.

Emergency Management BC will be testing the BC Emergency Alerting System on March 21 at 1:55 p.m.

Example of oil pipeline and shut off valves.

A rendering of Burnco’s proposed aggregate mine site in Howe Sound | SUBMITTED A sand and gravel quarry in Howe Sound has been approved by the provincial government, a year and a half after it entered the environmental review process. B.C.

Natural gas rates to remain the same in Metro Vancouver. Photo courtesy / FortisBC When most costs of living are rising, natural gas bills will not.

Shutterstock photo Today is the UN International Day of Happiness and we asked you the question: "What makes you happy?" We got a total of 19 responses through social media, which made us happy and of course made this story possible.

Ashwin Sood, shown here in his West Vancouver studio, will impart his 30-plus years of knowledge in the music biz as part of the Reboot Lab forum on Thursday, March 22.

A painting by Sir Winston Churchill of Lake Emerald, Canada is seen in this undated handout photo.

SCREENGRAB from Ocean Wise video A Steller sea lion that had a thick piece of braided plastic cutting deeply into its neck has been saved by the Vancouver Aquarium's Marine Mammal Rescue Centre.