A Yorkton woman was more than a little surprised to receive a $100 climate action dividend cheque from the B.C. government this month, especially since she has never lived there.

Police officers in Victoria exceeded their authority last week on Canada Day when they boarded buses and began randomly searching for and seizing unopened bottles of alcohol from riders, according to the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

The owners of condominium units at a downtown Vancouver tower developed by the Concord Pacific Group have had to pay millions for repairs because the building leaked, CBC News has learned.

The Vancouver Canucks on Monday night matched the one-year, $2.5-million offer sheet forward Steve Bernier signed with the St. Louis Blues earlier in the day.

Police have located a 10-year-old girl from the Courtenay, B.C., area after issuing an Amber Alert on Tuesday.

A severed human foot in a man's shoe was found bobbing in the surf of a beach in southwest Sweden Tuesday, and local police say it's too soon to speculate about links to similar finds in B.C.

A young model from Saltspring Island, B.C., had been stabbed and was fully clothed when her body was found in Shanghai, her boyfriend told CBC News on Tuesday.

Cellphone users with Bell and Telus are going to have to fork over a little more to receive incoming text messages under new pricing plans.

The Vancouver Park Board voted Monday night to tear down the historic wharf at Jericho Beach, and plans to build the new English Bay Bistro in the West End are also going ahead.

A cruise ship that ran aground for about nine hours near Glacier Bay in Alaska has been towed to safety, U.S. Coast Guard officials say.

Former Vancouver Canucks centre Brendan Morrison has agreed to a one-year, $2.75-million US contract with the Anaheim Ducks.

Residents of the small community of Burns Lake, B.C., are reeling from the loss of three people who died in a head-on collision.

A 16-year-old girl was recovering in hospital Monday after being stabbed Friday morning in Vancouver while waiting for the bus.

The first indoor venue for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games - the new UBC Thunderbird Arena - was opened by B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell on Monday morning.

Todd Bertuzzi is returning to a Canadian club, signing a one-year contract with the Calgary Flames worth $1.95 million US.

Vancouver police hope a new community policing centre that opened on Sunday will break down language barriers and cut crime in the city's South Asian community.

A contentious plan to improve a lookout view in one of Vancouver's most popular parks by cutting 70 trees will come before the park board for a vote Monday night.

Indie rock from both emerging and established artists dominates the 2008 Polaris Music Prize's short list, which organizers unveiled in a laid-back ceremony at a downtown Toronto nightclub Monday morning.

An environmental assessment of three industrial fires that struck Prince George one night in May shows that a dangerous list of petrochemicals, resins, caustic solution and batteries burned up in the blazes.

Three people were killed when their car collided head-on with a pickup truck near Prince George, B.C., on Saturday night.