A Prince George teen is getting a lot of praise for the way she faced bullies at her school. Grade 9 student Kailey Kukkola says someone had scrawled the words ‘Kailey Kukkola is a disgusting flat, ugly slut’ on the wall of a girl’s bathroom at College Heights High.

Hosts will be blocked from registering unless they have a city business-licence number

Kinder Morgan Canada (KML.TO) on Sunday suspended most work on a C$7.4 billion ($5.8 billion) oil pipeline expansion that has become the focus of protests, a move underscoring uncertainty over major energy projects in Canada. Company Chairman Steve Kean said he would scrap plans to nearly triple the capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline, which takes crude from Alberta’s oil sands to a facility in the Pacific province of British Columbia, unless the various legal challenges could be resolved by May 31.

After introducing a 20% tax on foreign buyers, the city in western Canada is continuing to tackle housing affordability

A British Columbia resident who adopted a potbellied pig named Molly from the SPCA and then ate it has been banned from future SPCA adoptions.

A British Columbia court has ruled that Vancouver's park board didn't have the authority to ban whales, dolphins and porpoises at the city's aquarium. The decision follows Vancouver Aquarium's announcement last month that it will end the practice of displaying cetaceans in captivity. The Ocean Wise Conservation Association, the non-profit society that runs the aquarium, filed an application for judicial review last year challenging a bylaw amendment passed by the park board in May 2017 which prohibited keeping cetaceans in parks.

Statistics on housing ownership captured for the first time by Statistics Canada show that when it comes to the impact of purchases by non-Canadian residents, geography and building type matter a lot. Figures published Tuesday, in a joint project with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, showed that non-residents owned 4.8 per cent in Metro Vancouver — but the number is much higher when it comes to condos, especially newer ones.

A coalition of environmental, community and First Nation organizations is calling on the B.C. NDP to broaden a campaign promise to review fracking by instead ordering a full public inquiry or commission. During the spring provincial election campaign, the NDP announced it would appoint a scientific panel to review the hydraulic fracturing process to ensure that gas is produced safely and the environment is protected, but the coalition suggests that review wouldn't go far enough.

A Vancouver cardiologist has presented details of a revolutionary heart valve surgery to thousands of doctors from around the world and says the minimally invasive procedure will "blow people's minds." Dr. David Wood led a study involving 411 patients who underwent an operation called 3M transcatheter aortic valve replacement for treating aortic heart valve disease, at 13 centres across North America, 11 of them in Canada.

If you drive around Williams Lake, B.C., you will likely spot Wilber Saunders picking up garbage along the side of the road. The 72-year-old retiree has developed a hobby of collecting other people's trash. "I've cleaned up here, there and everywhere," said Saunders. The unusual habit started out of a need for more exercise following a heart operation nine years ago.

Nanaimo beer store clerks were left traumatized but uninjured after being robbed at knife point by a man wearing a skeleton mask and swinging a baseball bat. The robbery happened Saturday at 10:40 p.m. RCMP say the masked man entered the Harewood Arms Beer and Wine store waving a knife. He then started banging a bat on the counter and demanding the clerks hand over the money from the till.

On the University of British Columbia’s campus in Vancouver, a new record-setting wood structures highlights the many advantages of a growing trend: vertical timber construction. Brock Commons Tallwood House is the highest of its kind to date, providing housing for over 400 students.

Canadians may soon be encouraged to eat more fibre, less sugar and not fret too much regarding overall fat intake. The 10-year-old Canadian Food Guide is in the process of being updated after about three years of research and consultation. The final product isn't ready, but it's shaping up to look a lot different than the current model. "You could say little has changed and everything has changed. When you think about how people get information...

The BC Government announced it is officially scrapping all tolls on both the Golden Ears and Port Mann Bridge at the beginning of next month.

The Canadian state of British Columbia has advised around 3,000 people to evacuate and declared a state of emergency as wildfires sweep through the province. More than 138 new wildfires broke out on Saturday alone, raising the total to about 240, according to local media reports.

A province-wide state of emergency remains in effect in B.C. as nearly 140 new fires broke out on Friday alone.

After 16 years and two months in power, the B.C. Liberals have lost the confidence of the legislature. A motion by NDP Leader John Horgan, which said "the present government does not have the confidence of this House," passed 44-42, with all NDP and Green members of the legislature voting in favour, and all Liberals voting against.

Katy Stubblefield, born and raised in Oklahoma, thinks of herself as a blue dot in a red state and is escaping up north to Canada with her husband, three boys and two cats. As a liberal family, they feel out of place in the conservative state, she told CBC's guest host of On The Coast Gloria Macarenko. "There is a lot of stuff that is scary," she said. "People take their guns to the grocery store around here."

A tree that towered over Vancouver for 30 years is gone, and condo owners are on the hook for its replacement.

In what's being described as a landmark case, a businessman accused of disappearing from China, after withdrawing a loan there equivalent to $10 million and reappearing in Vancouver in possession of several multi-million dollar Lower Mainland properties, has been ordered to repay the money. In June 2016, lawyers for China CITIC Bank brought an application before a B.C. Supreme Court judge to freeze the assets of Shibiao Yan, who was accused of approving the withdrawal of a 50 million RMB line of credit extended to a company he controlled in China and never repaying it.