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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.

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.

Chilliwack-Hope MLA Barry Penner has announced he is resigning as B.C. attorney general and won't run in the next B.C. election.

Grand Forks city council re-worded a bylaw intended to authorize infrastructure spending at a meeting on Monday (Aug. 15).

Grand Forks RCMP say that a red 2009 Honda quad was stolen and last seen headed eastbound on 75th Avenue.

There have been a lot of moths in the Boundary area lately and the spruce budworm moths are in the middle of their lifecycle.

Negotiations to purchase the Kettle Falls International Railroad have not happened yet, despite abandonment of the railroad being set to take place in less than three months.

Kelowna-based advertising company Mountain Media has enlisted the services of Montreal artist Jean Louis Rheault for the design of geo-pictorial maps for the region with a 3-D feel.

A paper carrier for Black Press' paper in Abbotsford witnessed a forest fire in the Boundary Falls area last week.

B.C.'s two-year-old 'gangs and guns' strategy is working, and the province will continue to do its share to maintain it, Public Safety Minister Shirley Bond says.