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Six people are recovering in hospital from stab wounds suffered in two overnight altercations in Metro Vancouver.

The family of Clayton Alvin Willie will decide this weekend if they want the videotape of his encounter with the Prince George RCMP made public, even though they still believe RCMP are holding back some of the taped evidence.

The Vancouver Canucks meet the Minnesota Wild on Saturday, hoping their longest home stretch of the season will help them climb up the Western Conference standings (CBC Sports, CBCsports.ca, 10 p.m. ET).

Kristi Richards of Pemberton, B.C., is off to the best start of her freestyle ski World Cup career after winning silver Saturday in women's moguls at Suomo, Finland.

The 19-year-old man guilty of the hit-and-run deaths of a Vancouver couple has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Murder charges against alleged B.C. gangster Jamie Bacon could be thrown out of court after a revelation that jail authorities recorded telephone conversations between Bacon and his lawyer for seven months.

Police in Kamloops, B.C., have arrested a man after sexually graphic letters were sent to elementary schools.

A chartered bus transporting a boys' hockey team slid off a highway and fell on its side in north-central B.C. on Friday afternoon but none of the 23 passengers suffered serious injuries.

The B.C. Coroner's Service is investigating Wednesday's sudden death of a one-year-old child in a Kamloops daycare.

B.C.'s Queen Charlotte Islands have officially been renamed Haida Gwaii as part of a historic reconciliation agreement between the province and the Haida Nation, Premier Gordon Campbell announced Friday in Vancouver.

Regional airlines and flight schools that will be shut down or rerouted by the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver say the federal government should pay them $3 million in compensation for lost business.

Real Christmas trees are no more dangerous than fake ones and shouldn't be banned from so many apartment buildings, says one Vancouver high-rise dweller.

The B.C. government has signed a wide-ranging agreement with six coastal First Nations aimed at promoting economic development on the province's central and northern coast.

A new award in the name of Terry Fox has been created to honour the Olympic athlete from any country who displays the most courage, humility and extraordinary athletic ability at the 2010 Winter Games.

A British Columbia mother has lost her court battle against the use of silver dental fillings containing mercury amalgam.

Statistics Canada says housing prices were on the rise in October.

World-class Canadian ice climber Guy Lacelle was killed on Thursday in an avalanche while climbing a mountain in southwestern Montana.

The B.C. government has given environmental approval to two new wind farms, including one that would be Canada's first offshore wind farm.

Daniel Sedin scored a hat trick to help the Vancouver Canucks open a key stretch of home games with a convincing 4-2 win over the Atlanta Thrashers on Thursday night.

A 23-year-old man from Victoria is in critical condition after lighting himself on fire near a hospital parking lot Thursday.