The needs of young, urban British Columbians are being left behind this election and poor voter turnout from the last is partly to blame, according to one University of British Columbia professor.

In 2009, Elections BC logged a record low 51 per cent voter turnout rate after decades of...

Manuel “Mike” Pratas is no stranger to having to fight for his name.

The B.C. Conservative candidate for Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows is one of four Tory candidates whose party affiliation will not be printed on next month’s provincial election ballots due to a paperwork error.

Social media giant HootSuite has ditched their once proud policy of unpaid internships following an embarrassing online backlash.

Not only will future interns be paid, but the company will also be stumping up back pay for all those who have worked for free at the Vancouver-based company...

Vancouver is tackling its affordable housing conundrum by considering major changes to the increasingly well-designed laneway homes that are built facing alleys.

The city has been promoting laneway living as a "choice beyond owning a house or renting a basement suite" and a way to increase rental housing across the...

Thousands of kids in a B.C. suburb have fond memories of the RCMP thanks to an unusual program started by a now-retired Mountie.

In 2002, Richmond RCMP started handing out “positive tickets” to thank citizens for good behaviour.

Often given to confused-looking teens, the tickets were redeemable...

Mathew Arthur ditched a renovated laneway house he shared with his two brothers to live in a cheap 45-sq. foot 1987 Dodge Ram Prospector for the next year. He's part of the growing "van dweller" community in Vancouver, where sky-high housing costs have forced many to get creative.

The...

Far from the province's coastal cities, there's a remote part of northeastern British Columbia that most city dwellers don't know is responsible for generating a significant portion of Metro Vancouver's power. It's near where Caleb Behn lives, and an area he's willing to fight for.

Behn, a young indigenous man...

From a foul-mouthed sandwich maker to a late-blooming 71-year-old street performer, a Vancouver filmmaker has spent the past year capturing B.C.'s quirkiest characters in short videos.

"There are a lot of interesting people, a lot of interesting stories here," Lewis Bennett told The Huffington Post B.C. of the...

In the lingerie business, there are many insider tips and observations that men searching for the perfect gift could learn from. Like West Coast women wear more thongs than anywhere else in North America.

"We're more athletic, sporty," explains Diane Thomson, who owns Dianes Lingerie in Vancouver. "It's...

The smell of caramelized onions with an aromatic blend of garlic, ginger, coriander and her mom's masala spice pulls Manjot Bains back into her parents' kitchen, wherever she is.

When Bains moved from Burnaby, B.C. to Toronto for a few years, homesickness came in waves. So she rolled up her...

We all must have been distracted by our made-in-China toys when the shipping container they arrived in became hot sustainable real estate themselves.

Construction got underway Friday in downtown Vancouver for Canada's first social housing project made of — shipping containers. It's part of a city initiative to provide...

A video of U.S. teens — produced by an Emmy-winning team — reacting to Canadian teen Amanda Todd's heart-wrenching story on YouTube has reignited the bullying debate.

"That's really f*cked up," said 16-year-old Adam while watching the first few minutes of Todd's video that chronicles years of online...

Metro Vancouver diners, grab your Wet-Naps. Voting has begun for the 5th Annual Chinese Restaurant Awards, and it's your duty to help choose the best.

Founded in 2008, the Chinese Restaurant Awards hand out two sets of honours: Critics' Choice Awards and Diner's Choice Awards.

Tofino Mayor Perry Schmunk announced his resignation during a council meeting Tuesday, which came as no surprise to his colleagues.

Schmunk said he had been transparent with scheduling issues that came up after he accepted a job as marketing director with Vancouver-based Cactus Club Cafe Restaurants Ltd. in August.

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake has been recorded off the west coast of Vancouver Island Wednesday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The earthquake struck 182 kilometres south-southwest of Port Hardy, B.C. at 6:01 p.m. No tsunami warning has been issued.

Minor shaking was reported by several residents from...

A powerful video by gay and lesbian RCMP officers in B.C.'s Lower Mainland shares their struggles and personal stories.

"There wasn't one single positive message," says Const. Theresa Gajecki in the video."There was a lot of talk about faggots and dykes, and it was always said with...

A B.C. woman has filed a class-action lawsuit against tech giant Apple for breach of privacy and security rights.

Surrey resident, Amanda Ladas filed the lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court Tuesday. Ladas alleges her rights and the rights of her son Jackson were violated after Apple began tracking and storing...

With all the chatter about British Columbia's current housing bubble, it's easy to forget about the abundance of abandoned real estate in the province's ghost towns.

B.C. is home to the highest number of ghost towns -- an estimated 1,500 -- in North America, according to "Ghost Towns...

Eating sharks from "legal" fisheries is OK, said Richmond MP Alice Wong in statement Wednesday, almost two weeks after enjoying a bowl of shark fin soup in front of a select group of Chinese-language media.

"I am of the view that shark which comes from a legal, humane and sustainable...

With all this chatter about Vancouver's ballooning housing bubble, tiny condos are picking up big attention.

Richmond developer Tien Sher hopes to ride the trend by building smaller, denser, multi-use units.

Sher's Balance project is one example of micro-living with condo units coming in at just 290 square...