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This is the second of two columns addressing what I see as the greatest threat to the B.C. environment in our lifetime. The Alberta oil industry's Northern Gateway plan is to export bitumen to Asia via tankers from the B.C. coast.

Sentimental heirlooms taken

Federal funds, private donations to kickstart summertime shoreline work

Despite whales having relatively little to do with bike lanes, Mayor Gregor Robertson spoke out on behalf of the incarcerated cetaceans anyway.

Servicemen and women of HMCS Discovery paraded alongside veterans of the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian Army, as well as members of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets and the Navy League in the Battle of the Atlantic pa

There are all sorts of beautiful boats in Vancouver. But there’s probably only one Dutch canal boat made out of teak. The Zomerland (Dutch for Summerland ) was built in 1934-35 by a famous Dutch shipbuilding company, DeVries Lentsch.

British Columbia golf history began in the late 1800s with the construction of the Jericho Beach golf course in Vancouver in 1892 (no longer operating), followed by the Victoria Golf Club in 1893.

Nicole Robins thought she was prepared to be a mom. But now that her son Tyler is 10 and her daughter Marlee is seven, she admits motherhood was not quite what she expected. "I just knew it was always something I wanted to do.

Longline helicopter rescue season is back in the North Shore backcountry. North Shore Rescue members airlifted three badly lost hikers off the edge of Grouse Mountain May 1.

A man previously deemed a high-risk offender who was thwarted partway through a West Vancouver break-in has been handed a 5½-year jail sentence - on top of four months already spent in custody - on account of his criminal past.