Defying Gravity, a CTV science-fiction series made in Vancouver, has been picked up by ABC in yet another coup for Canadian-made television programs.

B.C. Lions' receiver Ryan Grice-Mullen dropped a Hail Mary pass with 13 seconds to go that would have won the game, a back-and-forth 28-24 Roughriders' win that featured a whopping 15 turnovers.

More than 300 people gathered at a funeral home in Delta on Friday to pay their respects to a Surrey teenager killed in a car crash.

A van sought in connection with the death of a Burnaby businessman on Thursday may be linked to a theft that took place in the city two weeks ago.

The Grouse Grind trail on Vancouver's North Shore reopened Friday afternoon after being closed due to falling rock.

In 1983, a disillusioned Tien Ching left China, deprived by fate and Chairman Mao Zedong's cultural revolution from receiving a university education.

Vancouver's 750 or so firefighters will be watching Tuesday to see if city council agrees that having them in top physical shape is worth the price of supplying every fire hall with modern fitness and exercise equipment.

Gordana Nikic was just 18 years old when the siege of Sarajevo began.

CEOs from Vancouver's airport, port and tourist agencies met in a Canada Place boardroom last month to strategize about a dire situation: "The bottom is dropping out of the Alaska cruise market."

This is the first of four stories by our columnists about their most cherished mementos. On Tuesday, Pete McMartin writes about a favourite print he gave to his wife Sue.

Record label mogul Allen Klein, who handled the affairs of both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, died in New York Saturday after a battle with Alzheimer's disease, a spokesman said. He was 77.

A search is underway in Tofino for Sander Jain, who went missing after an afternoon hike on Canada Day.

A man was shot and killed in eastern Ontario after fleeing from police at a traffic checkpoint Friday night.

Search crews have located a large piece of debris from a Yemeni jet that crashed into the Indian Ocean off the Comoros islands last week and are working to retrieve it, the Yemeni transport ministry said on Saturday.

Iran hanged 20 drug traffickers on Saturday, official media reported, days after putting to death 12 other convicted criminals.

Labour relations at Vancouver airport stalled on the runway The stunning crash in January of a...

Vancouver-based Canadian Gold Hunter Corp. (TSX:CGH) plans to acquire Vancouver's Sanu Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:SNU) in an all-share deal worth...

Burnaby's Ballard Power Systems (TSX:BLD) has passed a product acceptance milestone and will ship 310 hydrogen fuel cell units...

Courier sued after First Nations regalia allegedly lost and damaged Alert Bay’s U’Mista Cultural Society has...

British Columbians and the majority of Canadians ate out more in April, according to Statistics Canada data released Tuesday....

A 17-year-old female was assaulted by three males near Wilson Park early Saturday morning. Police are requesting the public's assistance in providing any information about this incident.At approximately 1 a.m., the female was walking home from Wilson Park when she was attacked on a foot path near that location. Three males exited an older model, dark coloured, boxy-looking four door sedan, ...

B.C. will pay up to 750 unemployed workers to take wildfire suppression training to enhance the province’s capacity to fight and contain forest fires, Forests Minister Pat Bell announced Tuesday.The training is expected to start as early as Monday.Applicants have to be physically fit and in good health.The training will be delivered in regions throughout the province, including Prince ...

Drivers are being advised to be extra careful while driving along Highway 16 near the Tabor Mountain ski hill after two high-intensity moose collision warning signs were stolen.The signs, which were in place for about a year-and-a-half before they went missing in April, marked a mineral-lick area in a right-of-way on the highway's north side. "That's the problem with this Tabor moose hotspot ...

When Charles Jago returned to UNBC a year ago to fill in the gap left by president Don Cozzetto's sudden resignation, he was not a happy camper."I didn't think the idea was good for the university or for me, but circumstances determined that I come back, so I did," Jago told The Citizen this week."My focus has been to recruit a strong candidate as president, but the university needed to be in ...

The Tsay Keh Dene First Nation in northern B.C. has approved an agreement with the province and B.C. Hydro that ends a court case launched over the 1960s flooding impact of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam and the Williston Reservoir.The settlement -- which received 80 per cent support from the Tsay Keh Dene members who voted -- provided a one-time payment of $20.9 million and annual payments of $2 ...

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The one-miler. It's a legendary running race. The one-miler. It’s a legendary running race. Some say that the mile is the classic test in track and field. It combines speed and stamina.

Anthills, a mud pit and more mosquitoes than anyone could count didn't stop the Hot Hounds race series from achieving a record turnout this past weekend.

What was apparently a mighty dust devil shot up Lewes Boulevard Thursday afternoon, to the amazement of children and adults who witnessed it.

Canadian military and civilian search planes continue to scour the mountains in the territory's southwest corner for a missing plane and its two American passengers.