If you are of first nations ancestry, share your family's journey over the last 150 years. Did your family travel or stay in one area? What types of traditions and legends, wisdom from family elders or languages still spoken have been passed down through this time?

Canadian athletes are being urged by human rights activists to use the Olympics as an opportunity for non-violent protests over China's human rights' record.

The province has hit a milestone with 100 nurse practitioners now at work caring for patients, three years since the first class graduated.

VICTORIA - B.C. Supreme Court Justice Robert Johnston has sentenced Saanich pedophile Otto Edward Schneider to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting three young girls.

VANCOUVER - An infusion of federal cash for the expansion of a downtown youth shelter will give more street kids in the city the opportunity to rest their weary heads.

KITIMAT - A search continued Wednesday for a woman who fell out of a canoe into the Kitimat River on Monday.

CALGARY -- It's about the splash, but that alone won't make you a champion. The sport of cannonballing is no longer just the stuff of showing off at the pool or trying to soak your friends on the deck.

VANCOUVER - The United Nations has given Science World yet another designation.

The stories of British Columbia are newcomers' stories.

VANCOUVER - Folk Music Festival patrons who had their cars towed from the Jericho Hill property will be reimbursed for the towing charges they had to pay, Ian Black, B.C.'s minister of labour and citizens' services, announced Wednesday.

LANGLEY - Police are asking for the public's help to find a suspect wanted in connection with a break and enter at the home of a 91-year-old woman. The woman woke up to a loud noise Tuesday morning when a man entered her home through a window.

Six forest fires burning in the province -- predominantly in the southeast and southern interior -- are occupying half of B.C.'s 28 available fire crews.

ABBOTSFORD - Dustin Wester was studying for his real estate licence and looking forward to a career that would support his six-year-old daughter Jenna.

ABBOTSFORD - Police have charged three people with arson in connection with a fire that destroyed a 63-unit condominium project last week.

The Vancouver Sun's daily feature from all-traffic station AM730 to help readers with their commuting. Look to this space each day to find information on major road closures and continuing construction to avoid:

Share the best of your summer and you could win an adventure vacation for four.

WHISTLER - Whistler Blackcomb's Peak 2 Peak gondola is expected to be a spectacular 4.4-kilometre ride between the two mountain tops when it opens in December.

LOWER MAINLAND - Metal thieves intent on making money fast aren't just stealing copper wire and bronze statues these days, Coquitlam RCMP reported Wednesday: They've taken to cutting catalytic converters out from under cars in broad daylight.

The B.C. government has reversed course and quietly given itself the right to deny services to developmentally disabled adults with IQs over 70.

VANCOUVER - A man accused of killing two young women 22 years ago was acquitted Wednesday after a second trial in B.C. Supreme Court.