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Premier Christy Clark speaks with employee's of Langley Concrete in Chilliwack April 17, 2013.

ICBC is urging drivers and cyclists to take care as more riders take to the roads with the approach of summer weather.

Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service crews were on the scene of a two-car collision Tuesday afternoon at DeLair Road and Sumas Way.

Mission Fire/Rescue Service members were intermittently hosing down the power pole at Stave Lake Street and Parr Avenue while a natural gas fire burned adjacent to it.

By Peter Rusland - Cowichan News Leader Pictorial Published: May 21, 2013 11:00 AM Updated: May 21, 2013 1:05 PM A nautical couple is cheering BC Ferries' crew members after the pair and its pooch were rescued from their sinking boat Monday in Saanich Inlet.

By Peter Rusland - Cowichan News Leader Pictorial Published: May 21, 2013 11:00 AM Updated: May 21, 2013 1:06 PM But that is exactly what happened in the case of a Lake Cowichan man found guilty in a Victoria courthouse earlier this month.

The long weekend proved a rough one for those patrolling B.C.'s highways with several people killed -- including a 12-year-old girl riding in a jeep driven by an 11-year-old. The long weekend proved to be a tragic one for those patrolling B.C.'s highways with several people killed - including a 12-year-old girl riding in a jeep driven by an ... (more)

Two home owners and an arborist in North Vancouver have been charged with illegally cutting down trees in a North Vancouver park to improve their views.

Residents along a popular biking lane on Vancouver's West 10th Avenue are concerned traffic circles are causing an increase in accidents between cars and cyclists.

The Kootenay Co-op in Nelson, B.C., is fighting federal government changes to what is considered 'local food.' more The national average price for a home rose to $380,588 in April 2013, an increase of 1.3 per cent from the previous year.

Prime Minister Stphen Harper will address the Conservative caucus Tuesday morning amid a widening controversy over Senate expenses.

The cities of Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam and local RCMP are asking the public to use caution around trails and parks in the two communities following a couple of recent incidents.

Equipment already in place on Okanagan Mountain where the regional district hopes to locate a new radio repeater as part of a $1.6-million upgrade to the emergency fire dispatch system.

Family members of a 22-year-old man from British Columbia who vanished in Mexico two weeks ago are concerned he may have been kidnapped.

The Langley Speedway is one of only three sites in B.C. to host a NASCAR race. A Metro Vancouver committee is considering a proposal to re-open the Langley Speedway that closed almost three decades ago.

By Paul Rudan - Campbell River Mirror Published: May 16, 2013 2:00 PM Updated: May 16, 2013 2:56 PM It wasn't the happiest smile though, as she simply pointed to the television screen and the numbers showing another majority government for the BC Liberal Party.

Thick grey smoke could be seen billowing into the air in Brackendale, signalling to residents of Squamish that someone's house was on fire.

Clint Schoening of West Kelowna has been identified as the man killed in a motorcycle accident Saturday night on East Side Road.

Brad Deering, 42, was shot outside his home in Escazu, near the capital San Jose, Costa Rican police said in a statement on their Facebook page.

Adrian Dix was inside the Hitching Post Restaurant drinking from a mug stamped with twin six-shooters while outside on the old mining town's main street, with dusk starting to cover the mountaintops, his campaign workers were counting potential seats in what appeared to be a shoe-in win.