British Columbia news

This cake is moist and intense with the flavours of citrus.

The sale of an unlicensed natural health product carries fines of up to $5,000 or imprisonment up to three years.

One man was arrested following a fight in Chase, B.C., involving a machete-style knife.

The rot has set in, and the only solution is to expose the whole system to sunlight, writes Jon McComb.

Talk about saving your bacon!

The expansion of Vancouver's public bike share program service area has finally reached Commercial Drive.

Samantha Fraenkel from Book Warehouse tells us about the best books to read as the days get longer this spring.

The City of Vancouver and Vancouver Aquarium are collectively waiting on nearly $700,000 in losses related to a 2015 leak of bunker fuel, while the Heiltsuk Nation continues negotiating over $200,000 in repayments for its response to a tugboat that ran aground in 2016.

Over 2,000 post-secondary students are set to relocate as the Greater Victoria School District takes back a building that's currently home to the Vancouver Island School of Art.

Grain farmers in British Columbia are struggling to get their product to market with backlogs on Canadian National's rail lines and inclement weather causing weeks of delays.

Here are your five things to do this weekend for Thursday, April 19, 2018, including the Vancouver Sun Run and Art! Vancouver.

Federal prosecutors say a television actress best known for playing a young Superman's close friend has been charged with sex trafficking for helping recruit women to be slaves of a man who sold himself as a self-improvement guru.

The scientist behind the discovery of 200 bottlenose dolphins and 70 false killer whales says warmer waters and climate change likely led to their appearance.

"It's time for us to stand up for the Earth, it's time for us to say yes to life and no to the profit-making and greed involved in death."

Here are your five things to do this weekend for Friday, April 20, 2018.

Michael comes to Global News with extensive experience and a passion for community reporting.

The track that the West Coast Express runs on is owned by CP rail, and TransLink leases time on it in order to operate the commuter train. 

RCMP are asking for help in finding a missing Vernon teen.

The homeopathic remedy made from rabid dog saliva that a Victoria naturopath says she used to treat a small boy was not licensed for sale in Canada, and the federal government is opening an investigation.

The moose appears to be quite young but still stands very tall and can see over the top of the car next to it.

The annual marijuana protest/festival is going ahead without approval from the Vancouver Park Board. Jordan Armstrong reports on who is arriving so far and what residents can expect.

Here are your five things to do this weekend for Friday, April 20, 2018, including the Chilliwack Tulips of the Valley Festival and the Make it! Vancouver festival.

Klein is alleged to have entered Abbotsford Senior Secondary in November, 2016 and stabbed two teens -- one of them fatally.

Video posted to Facebook shows an orca calf swimming with a pod of orcas in Cowichan Bay. Conservation groups are urging boaters to slow down to make sure the orcas are not hurt.

Of the new funding, $1.7 million will go toward preventing sexual assault, domestic violence and human trafficking, Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said.

Dana Gee reviews the latest releases every Friday on Global News Morning BC,Dana Gee tells us whether new movies I Feel Pretty, Super Troopers 2 and Lean on Pete are worth catching in theatres this weekend. .

Pot activist Dana Larsen joins Jordan Armstrong at Sunset Beach Friday morning ahead of the 2018 4/20 event. Larsen says they are making a number of changes this year to make sure the event goes off without a hitch.

Have you ever wanted to donate your hair to the Canadian Cancer Society wig bank? Start growing your hair and join us in 6 months on the Morning News.Sandra Krueckl from the Canadian Cancer Society and Ginger Sherlock, a wig bank hair donor, join Sonia Sunger to discuss.

Disposable plastic straws are about to be banned throughout Britain. Here’s what’s happening with straws in Canada and a closer look at what impact such bans could really have.

Gabriel Klein was charged with second-degree murder and aggravated assault in connection a fatal stabbing at Abbotsford Secondary School in November 2016.

Gabriel Klein was charged with second-degree murder and aggravated assault in connection a fatal stabbing at Abbotsford Secondary School in November 2016.

Christian Michael Lee Richardson has been charged with fraud and theft offences.

A rail strike has been temporarily averted after the federal labour minister ordered employees of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. to vote on the company's final offers, just hours before they were set to walk off the job.

Crews have already assembled the massive main stage and the protective grass covering has been laid down.

Vancouver is famed for its annual 4/20 event — but the protest that put legalization into the popular consciousness didn't even take place on April 20.

Washboard Union's ascent in the world of country music continues to rise with their third album release, 'What We're Made Of,'

The Vaisakhi parade is one of Surrey's biggest events.

The Vaisakhi parade is one of Surrey's biggest events.

Vancouver's annual pot festival is set to take place today at Sunset Beach, without the approval of the Vancouver Park Board.

With more vendors and the usual massive crowd of cannabis enthusiasts, the Vancouver 4/20 event went about as officials expected, even though the rain began falling just before the countdown at 4:20 p.m.

Vendors began set up early yesterday afternoon for Vancouver's annual pot festival that's turning into a noisy celebration despite cloudy weather at Sunset Beach seaside park in Vancouver.

Vendors began setting up as early as yesterday afternoon for Vancouver's annual pot festival set for Friday at Sunset Beach.

Vendors began setting up as early as yesterday afternoon for Vancouver's annual pot festival set for Friday at Sunset Beach.

When Dr. Brenda Wagner signed on as head of obstetrics at Richmond Hospital, the maternal team there had the highest rate of C-section births in B.C. A decade and a half later, it has one of the lowest.

Stage 1 water restrictions will be implemented two weeks early this year.

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says she's open to looking at decriminalizing small quantities of drugs and revamping Canada's prostitution laws — both policies that are popular with youth delegates at the Liberal Party convention underway in Halifax.

Whenever a controversy about homeopathy pops up, Health Canada is stuck: either it affirms the alleged effectiveness of these products despite the total lack of scientific evidence, or it concedes that it has been green-lighting silly water as a health product in its role as a government regulator.

As the Liberal government deals with deep divisions over a western pipeline expansion, grassroots party members are pushing for a long-term vision that relies less on getting oil to market and more on Canada's energy independence.

Doing a double take over how much it costs to fill up a tank of gas is a classic Canadian irritation. But a confluence of factors are teaming up at the moment to make that process even more gobsmacking than usual. Here's a look at five big reasons why gas prices are soaring.

A suspect has not been arrested at this point.