B.C.

VANCOUVER – The Canadian Olympic Committee has launched a lawsuit targeting the North Face clothing brand over allegations one of the company’s apparel lines violates Olympic trademarks.

VANCOUVER – Two members of the Hells Angels have been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the beating death of a man in Kelowna, B.C.

VICTORIA – B.C.’s transportation minister says he’s concerned about a judge’s ruling that left a designated driver unable to collect on third-party liability insurance after her drunk passenger caused a serious accident.

VANCOUVER – Canfor Pulp Products Inc. (TSX:CFX) credits an improvment in global sofwood markets for helping post higher much higher revenue and earnings in the fourth quarter. The Vancouver-based companysays net income in the three month to Dec. 31 was $14.2 million, or 20 cents per share, up from$5.4 million, or eight cents per share, in the same 2013 period. Revenue rose to $245.6 millkion from $201.9 million.

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – Corban Knight scored the winner late in the third period in the Abbotsford Heat’s 4-3 win over the Charlotte Checkers in American Hockey League action Wednesday night.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. – Riley Kieser had two goals and an assist as the Edmonton Oil Kings won their ninth in a row, toppling the host Kamloops Blazers 4-1 on Wednesday in Western Hockey League action.

VICTORIA – The ’70s may be alive and well in homes with wood panelled interior walls, but home owners who want to update the once trendy treatment may find the task daunting.

VANCOUVER – Every year, millions of chinook salmon clog the rivers and creeks of British Columbia in an epic migration that has puzzled scientists for generations.

VANCOUVER – Civil liberties activists in B.C. have filed complaints against Canada’s spy agency and the RCMP for allegedly snooping on opponents of the Northern Gateway pipeline.

VANCOUVER – B.C.’s transportation minister says a referendum related to the Vancouver region’s transit system could be held in June 2015 instead of during municipal elections in November.

VANCOUVER – A British Columbia man convicted of murdering his pregnant wife has been stripped of his teaching licence for 25 years.

VANCOUVER – Lionsgate (NYSE:LGF) says boffo box office from hit films like “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” contributed to record quarterly revenue and a more than doubling of its profit in the third quarter.Lionsgate, based in Santa Monica, Calif., but with significant operations in Vancouver, says revenue was up 13 per cent at US$839.9 million in the three months ended Dec. 31. Net income was $88.8 million, or 59 cents per diluted share, up from $37.8 million, or 27 cents in the same year-earlier period.

BURNABY, B.C. – Homicide investigators are probing the suspicious death of a man in Burnaby, B.C.

VANCOUVER – The Underwater Council of B.C. is plunging into the battle over creation of an artificial reef in the waters of Howe Sound.

VANCOUVER – Traffic has dropped substantially on the Port Mann bridge since tolls were introduced.

VANCOUVER – The province of British Columbia has filed an application to take part in the public hearings into Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of its Trans Mountain oil pipeline.

VANCOUVER – The B.C. government has filed an appeal of a court decision that concluded the province violated the bargaining rights of teachers.

VANCOUVER – British Columbia has become the latest province to announce it will not prosecute most prostitution-related offences now that Canada’s highest court has ruled the laws are unconstitutional.

SURREY, B.C. – RCMP investigators are looking into a fatal head-oncrash between a bus and another vehicle in Surrey.