Vancouver food carts miss long weekend
Publish Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:00:57 EDT
Vancouver's plan to have 17 new mobile food carts on the streets in time for the August long weekend has run into problems, leaving just two of newly licensed food vendors ready to go, and only one planning to actually open.

Pickton won't get new trial: top court
Publish Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:36:44 EDT
Robert William Pickton will not get a new trial for murdering six women in British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.

Apple's iPhone 4 leads to long lineups
Publish Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:08:48 EDT
Shoppers in Canada are lining up to buy Apple's iPhone 4, which went on sale Friday.

B.C. wildfire evacuation order partially lifted
Publish Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:27:08 EDT
An evacuation order at Bonaparte Lake, north of Kamloops, B.C., has been partially lifted.

WorkSafeBC rules don't apply to crane mishap
Publish Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:44:35 EDT
WorkSafeBC says it has limited jurisdiction over a Victoria construction site where a crane operator was impaled on a piece of rebar earlier this week.

Chopper crashes while fighting B.C. wildfire
Publish Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:44:37 EDT
Two pilots are recovering after their helicopter crashed while fighting a wildfire in B.C.'s southern interior.

3 guilty in B.C. attack caught on YouTube
Publish Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:37:59 EDT
A B.C. provincial court judge has found three Vancouver Island men guilty of assault in an attack on a black man, the video of which was posted on YouTube last year.

1 arrested in Richmond racist graffiti case
Publish Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:31:41 EDT
Police in Richmond, B.C., have made an arrest in connection with racist graffiti found on the walls, ceiling and stairwell of a shopping mall parkade.

Burnaby Mountain fire under control
Publish Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:30:25 EDT
Fire crews in Metro Vancouver appear to have a grass fire on the south side of Burnaby Mountain under control.

B.C. ends sex tests as researcher charged
Publish Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:20:39 EDT
The B.C. government has cancelled a program that tested the sexual responses of young sex offenders by attaching sensors to their genitals, after it learned one of the researchers has been charged with a sexual offence.

Lightning sparks 165 new B.C. wildfires
Publish Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:28:47 EDT
Lightning strikes caused an estimated 165 new wildfires in B.C.'s Interior overnight Wednesday, prompting officials to issue two new evacuation orders and call in aerial reinforcements as hot, dry weather continued.

Pickton appeal ruling due Friday
Publish Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:28:02 EDT
The Supreme Court of Canada will rule Friday on whether convicted serial killer Robert William Pickton will get a new trial.

Police identify woman in Abbotsford homicide
Publish Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:54:09 EDT
Homicide investigators have identified a woman who was shot to death in Abbotsford, B.C., early Wednesday morning as Mandy Astin Johnson, 22, of Langley.

Greenpeace protesters arrested in Vancouver
Publish Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:54:22 EDT
Four Greenpeace protesters who chained themselves in the Vancouver office of the Enbridge pipeline company have been arrested and released by police.

B.C. government halts HST flyer again
Publish Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:58:06 EDT
The B.C. government has again postponed plans to mail out flyers outlining the benefits of the harmonized sales tax, even though the flyers have already been printed.