B.C. News Headlines

The B.C. Teachers Federation will ask its members next week if they want to engage in a fullscale work stoppage in response to the government's plan to impose a contract settlement on them.

B.C. residents are living longer and fewer are dying from cancer and heart disease, according to statistics released Friday by the provincial government.

VANCOUVER - The only man convicted in the 1985 Air India terror bombings will be back in a B.C. courtroom on June 14 to appeal his sentence for perjury.

VICTORIA - People in B.C. are living longer and death rates from cancer and some other diseases are falling, according to the latest vital statistics report from the provincial government.

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - Shares of mining junior Barker Minerals Ltd. [TSXV:BML] jumped 27 per cent Friday after the company announced a new gold discovery at its Frank Creek project in B.C.

Patients, colleagues and co-workers of B.C.'s doctors will soon have the opportunity to provide online assessments of their physicians, the provincial College of Physicians and Surgeons says.

The organization representing B.C.'s 40,000 teachers is asking for a mediator to be appointed in the contract dispute with school employers rather than see the government draft 'bullying' legislation that would impose a settlement.

New provincial laws aimed at helping thwart rampant metal theft across B.C. aren't helping much in the city of Surrey, where metal theft has doubled in the last two years.

Winter is about to remind parts of the country it can still pack a punch, as a series of weather systems is expected to dump snow in southern B.C., central Canada and the East Coast.

SURREY, B.C. - Health officials in B.C.'s Fraser Valley are urging people to get vaccinations for whooping cough as the disease continues to spread in the region.

CALGARY - Huge oil tankers can safely travel in and out of the port of Kitimat, B.C., says a Transport Canada review of Enbridge Inc.'s controversial Northern Gateway project.

The Canadian Avalanche Centre is issuing a special avalanche warning as conditions in B.C.'s mountains are set to become more dangerous over the weekend.

It is very unlikely the B.C.'s teachers will reach a voluntary agreement with their government employers, according to a report issued on Thursday by a government appointed fact finder.

LANGLEY, B.C. - Coast Mountain bus drivers and passengers in Surrey and Langley can relax following the arrest of man suspected in two recent, apparently random attacks in Metro Vancouver.

RED DEER, Alta. — In a week full of uncertainty, B.C.’s Kelly Scott hasn’t lost her focus at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.Quite the opposite, in fact, as the two-time Canadian women’s curling champion will head into the final day of the round-robin schedule at the Enmax Centrium in position for a playoff spot, despite …