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B.C.'s high school grads were leaving millions in scholarship money on the table by not writing optional final exams, so the education ministry has changed the system to make sure the aid gets to students who do well on mandatory tests.

Feds scale back monitoring for Fukushima nuke fallout

Tourists are lining up at U.S. border crossings instead of heading to B.C.'s favourite coastal getaways, and summer traffic on BC Ferries is down about four per cent as a result.

Studies find self-exclusion at casinos easy to beat but still worthwhile

New $1.2-million project part of future commercial development plans

Chilliwack-Hope MLA Barry Penner has announced he is resigning as B.C. attorney general and won't run in the next B.C. election.

Five people arrested after police seize 719 marijuana plants

Care needed to deliver strongest justice: police chief

B.C.'s two-year-old 'gangs and guns' strategy is working, and the province will continue to do its share to maintain it, Public Safety Minister Shirley Bond says.

No deal this year authorizing commercial sale of member bands' salmon