Minimum price for a 12-ounce sleeve of draft beer or cider is $3

Not all happy with B.C. happy hour

"Happy hour" discounts for alcoholic drinks impose new minimum drink prices that force some outlets to raise their prices

Minimum price for a 12-ounce sleeve of draft beer or cider is $3
Your next pitcher of some generic Honey Beer or Nut Brown Ale could see a price hike of a couple dollars

B.C. happy hour laws may raise beer prices

Some bar owners not so happy new liquor laws in B.C. may raise prices for beer

  • Jun 22, 2014
Your next pitcher of some generic Honey Beer or Nut Brown Ale could see a price hike of a couple dollars

Booze can now be sold at B.C. farmers markets

New B.C. liquor laws allow booze at farmers markets and minors in pubs

  • Jun 21, 2014
Paramedics demonstrate automated defibrillator. When case is opened

Talking defibrillator program expands

Funding doubled to put life-saving machines in arenas, recreation centres and libraries around B.C.

Paramedics demonstrate automated defibrillator. When case is opened
Ed Pereira

Experts battle growing online crime

Organized crime-sponsored hackers "are getting smarter, they have more money than anybody else" but you can protect yourself

Ed Pereira
B.C.'s '60 Minute Kids' Club' is running from January 15 to March 15

60 Minute Kids’ Club running from Jan. 15 to March 15

The program encourages students, parents in B.C. to live a healthy, active lifestyle, and provides health and vegetable/fruit trackers.

B.C.'s '60 Minute Kids' Club' is running from January 15 to March 15
Senator Nancy Greene Raine watches Olympic ski event at Whistler with Prime Minister Stephen Harper

National fitness day proposed

B.C. senator Nancy Greene Raine and MP John Weston call for action to stop "epidemic of obesity" among youth

Senator Nancy Greene Raine watches Olympic ski event at Whistler with Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Most B.C. drivers don't expect to end up like the driver of this flipped vehicle last winter in Abbotsford.

Poll finds B.C. drivers confident of snow skills, doubt need for winter tires

Insights West/BCAA survey finds just a third of motorists admit to 'freaking out' when it snows

Most B.C. drivers don't expect to end up like the driver of this flipped vehicle last winter in Abbotsford.
The North American symbol for a winter tire is a mountain with snowflake. All-season tires with 'M+S' for 'mud and snow' are also acceptable for restricted roads in B.C.

Are your tires ready for winter roads?

Some "all season" tires are good enough for winter roads in B.C., but not all of them

The North American symbol for a winter tire is a mountain with snowflake. All-season tires with 'M+S' for 'mud and snow' are also acceptable for restricted roads in B.C.

Microsoft competing in tablets and smartphones

This week's Tech Yourself column which was contributed by Rob Orchiston

Richard Niesman sorts bottles at Maple Ridge recycling depot

Integration focus for developmentally disabled

Schools are desegregated, and the next step is community, work and retirement

Richard Niesman sorts bottles at Maple Ridge recycling depot

Change: onward and upward

In our gardens and landscapes, we witness how plants grow and change year after year

The historic musical 'Love Me Tonight' will be screened at the WIndermere Valley Museum theatre on August 18th and 19th.

Valley museum presents a madcap musical film

To highlight the dying days of August, a historic 1932 musical film, Love Me Tonight, will be showing

The historic musical 'Love Me Tonight' will be screened at the WIndermere Valley Museum theatre on August 18th and 19th.
Cars have changed since the Model T was first popular

Change? What change?

Change sometimes sneaks up on us and, we find, sometimes it is taken for granted

Cars have changed since the Model T was first popular

Become a firefighter!

Becoming a firefighter can be a big responsibility, but it also offers rewards that are unparalleled.

Zumba classes have begun at the Windermere Hall

C’mon, get healthy at Liberation fair

With a new year, plenty of people are looking for ways to make their lifestyle more healthy.

  • Jan 18, 2012
Zumba classes have begun at the Windermere Hall

S.M.A.R.T. start for 2012

Are you feeling heavy, flabby, and lacking energy?

Local food, global cuisine

Slow Food Columbia Valley is thinking globally and acting locally on Saturday, December 10.

  • Nov 29, 2011
Public Safety Minister Shirley Bond and Speaker Bill Barisoff take part in earthquake drill at the B.C. legislature Thursday.

Earthquake means ‘drop, cover, hold on’

The best way to protect yourself from falling objects in an earthquake is ducking under a desk or sturdy table until one minute after the shaking stops.

Public Safety Minister Shirley Bond and Speaker Bill Barisoff take part in earthquake drill at the B.C. legislature Thursday.
John Nykiforuk

Bus driver’s book program recognized with award

When school bus driver John Nykiforuk took over the Blewett run outside Nelson a few years ago, the behaviour of some of his young passengers was “well, pretty bad.”

John Nykiforuk