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Port Moody-Coquitlam MLA Iain Black is resigning his seat to take a new job as CEO of the Vancouver Board of Trade. Premier Christy Clark said she is "delighted and saddened" to see the MLA who succeeded her as Port Moody-area MLA leave politics.

The B.C. Public School Employers' Association applied to the labour board for a ruling expected by Friday, saying the B.C. Teachers' Federation continues to try to negotiate provincial issues such as class size and staffing ratios at local district bargaining tables.

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.

Tributes are pouring in for federal New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton, who died of cancer early Monday at age 61. Layton's death comes just months after Layton led the NDP to Official Opposition status in Canadian Parliament, a first for the party.

Getting drunks off the street is still the the No. 1 priority for RCMP, Port Hardy’s top cop told district council.

There will be no by-election to fill the seat of a politician who quit her position on Port Alice council to pursue “better opportunities” elsewhere for herself and her children.

This town’s incumbent mayor said she will vie for another term in the upcoming November elections.

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.

Feds scale back monitoring for Fukushima nuke fallout

The North Island’s only funeral home has been shut down after owners failed to comply with the law, a Consumer Protection BC spokesperson told the Gazette.