B.C.

VANCOUVER – Mother Nature is reminding residents of B.C.’s south coast what it means to be Canadian, dumping snow on the region, snarling travel plans and cutting power.

LANGLEY, B.C. – Copper theft is not a new problem in Metro Vancouver, but officials admit they are stunned by the damage caused during a recent heist in Langley, B.C.

VANCOUVER – B.C.’s coroner will hold a public inquest into the death of a Mexican woman who died by suicide after she attempted to hang herself while in custody at Vancouver’s airport.

VICTORIA – British Columbia’s Opposition New Democrats are proposing legislation that would alert authorities to missing seniors, similar to the Amber Alerts that broadcast information about missing children.

VANCOUVER – The B.C. Teachers’ Federation says it will hold a strike vote next month to pressure government into negotiating a new contract acceptable to the province’s teachers.

VANCOUVER – A British Columbia company says a man involved in an ocean fertilization project lied about his credentials and is holding the scientific data hostage.

VANCOUVER – Space technology company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA) has reported a big increase in fourth-quarter revenue and earnings. MDA, best known for the robotic arms used on the International Space Station, said net earnings in the three months ended Dec. 31 were $25 million or 70 cents per share, up from $11 million or 35 cents per share in the same 2012 period. Revenue rose to $476.7 million from $372.6 million.

VICTORIA – British Columbians will vote in municipal elections every four years instead of every three years if a proposed law passes the province’s legislature.

VANCOUVER – Sorry, Canada.

PEMBERTON, B.C. – The BC Coroner’s Service has identified a snowboarder killed near Pemberton on the weekend.

COLDSTREAM, B.C. – Conservation officers have shot an injured cougar that was hanging around some homes and a school in the north Okanagan community of Coldstream, B.C.

WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. – A pair of snowboarders who went out of bounds and lost their way on Cypress Mountain have been rescued.

VANCOUVER – More than 1,000 non-unionized truckers are parking their rigs and refusing to work at Port Metro Vancouver to protest long wait times and low rates.

VANCOUVER – A judge has granted the B.C. government’s request to put on hold a costly court decision related to its contract with the province’s teachers until an appeal is heard.

LANTZVILLE, B.C. – A body has been found in what remains of a burned-out home north of Nanaimo, B.C.

VANCOUVER – The Canadian navy has been cleared in the death of a killer whale that washed up in Washington state two years ago.

VANCOUVER – A British man facing deportation from Canada has admitted at an immigration hearing that he once led the banned Sikh separatist group Babbar Khalsa in England.

VANCOUVER – A women’s advocacy group is proposing two ways to address a critical lack of family law services in B.C., saying cuts to legal-aid funding have made access to justice nearly impossible for vulnerable citizens.

VERNON, B.C. – An American cross-country ski coach accused of voyeurism and making child porn stemming from a hidden video camera at a ski resort in Vernon, B.C., has pleaded not guilty to 10 charges.