British Columbia News

Reporting from Vancouver, Canada -- For the last 12 years, Mikhail and Irina Lennikov have lived unremarkable lives, not unlike countless other immigrants who came to Canada from Eastern Europe looking for a fresh start in a prosperous and quiet land.

Many people were shocked by the video that surfaced recently of three young Caucasian men apparently swarming a lone black man in a strip mall parking lot on a hot summer night in the Vancouver Island city of Courtenay.

A photograph of Jeremy Sunderland, from a Facebook profile. There has been no official confirmation, but local media reports indicate one of the pilots killed in a fiery plane crash in Richmond, B.C., on Thursday night was Jeremy Sunderland, 28.

Japanese Emperor Akihito greets the crowd at the BC legislature with Premier Gordon Campbell today.

OTTAWA a ' Actress Shannon Tweed said she's not upset about being snubbed by the city of Ottawa after having a proclamation of Shannon Tweed Day rescinded by the acting mayor.

Bachelorette Jillian finally dumped that jerk, America found some real Talent and the Big Brother 11 premiere marked the official start of the lazy days of summer.

A man walks past the office of online site Craigslist in San Francisco, California, in 2006.

A Canadian resident arrested two years ago in a smuggling ring investigation will not serve any additional prison time under a sentence handed down by a federal judge.

An EnCana pump jack pumps oil out of the ground near Rockyford, Alberta. EnCana is one of Canada's largest energy producers, and has suffered six bombing attacks on its pipeline.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled the decision by two British Columbia transit systems banning political advertising from its bus fleet violated rights to free speech.

Vancouver police released this photo of the machete used in an attack Thursday. Photograph by: Handout, Vancouver Police VANCOUVER a ' A Vancouver man faces aggravated-assault charges after a 39-year-old woman was chased through an apartment building and savagely slashed with a machete.

Alexander Vincent Paul,32, was murdered at a rural Abbotsford residence on Tuesday.

A Vancouver International Airport spokeswoman says a small passenger plane has crashed in an industrial area of the nearby suburb of Richmond, British Columbia.

The pumps may have gone dry on "Corner Gas," but the TV show's set is still fuelling a debate in the town that stood in for the fictional community of Dog River, Sask.

In the 2007 movie "Next," Nicholas Cage plays a man who can see several minutes into the future.

An Alberta man who allegedly tried smuggling $4 million worth of cocaine into Canada was nabbed Tuesday after having a bad case of the nerves.

Rather than taking chances with the unpredictable power of nature, some pipelines are going deep underground.

Government documents reveal the number of British Columbians expected to receive income-assistance could climb to 147,000 by next June, a figure the Opposition has calculated will leave the government $100 million over budget.

Concrete and form work for two levels of underground parking is underway on the multi-million dollar Starline Development in Penticton, B.C. It consists of two 11-storey concrete high-rise buildings, that will have 102 units and about 80,000 sq.

Whistler RCMP believe one person may be responsible for a recent string of break-and-enters and smash-and-grab incidents in Whistler.