B.C.

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. – The City of Prince Rupert has been fined $50,000 by Environment Canada for the illegal discharge of chemicals into the ocean from the old Skeena Cellulose pulp mill.

VANCOUVER – Families across B.C. are waiting to hear if teachers will launch a full-scale strike with only two weeks before the end of the school year.

VANCOUVER – RCMP say heroin seized at Vancouver’s airport came from south Asia and involved organized crime.

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. – B.C.’s Appeal Court has upheld a conviction against a Prince George city councillor who leaked private documents to the CBC.

NANAIMO, B.C. – Police in Nanaimo, B.C., are investigating a bizarre early-morning attack on a teen who reported being thrown to the ground when she stopped her car to help some kittens crossing the road.

VICTORIA – Premier Christy Clark wants to keep a tighter rein on the purse strings at British Columbia’s Crown corporations, especially the salaries and perks received by its executives.

KELOWNA, B.C. – Mounties in Kelowna, B.C., are warning gang members and their associates that they aren’t welcome in the Okanagan this summer.

VANCOUVER – Lululemon Athletica Inc. reports a lower first-quarter profit of $19 million compared with $47.2 million during the same quarter last year. Diluted earnings per share for the quarter were 13 cents compared with 32 cents year-over-year. Net revenue for the quarter increased 11 per cent to $384.6 million from $345.8 million. The yoga wear company says its board of directors has approved a stock buy-back program up to $450 million of its common shares.

VANCOUVER – A who’s who of the business world is featured in a full-page newspaper ad running nationwide promoting the Northern Gateway pipeline on the cusp of a federal decision on the project.

VANCOUVER – Pot holes, crumbling pavement and congestion top the list in the British Columbia Automobile Association’s fourth annual survey of the province’s worst roads.

VANCOUVER – Mayors from around the Vancouver area have approved a $7.5-billion public transportation plan to ease gridlock, though where the money will come from remains to be seen.

VANCOUVER – Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B) will spend an additional $450 million over the next three years to upgrade its wireless communications network in British Columbia, where it’s in a tight race for market share with Telus Corp. Toronto-based Rogers announced Thursday that it will expand its network in more than 70 communities in the province. It also said it would enhance its current mobile network so it can carry high-speed Internet to more places, including deep inside buildings, elevators and basements where signals may not have reached previously.

GALIANO ISLAND, B.C. – Police say a fire that destroyed a 15-metre pleasure boat in Active Pass, which cuts through some of B.C.’s southern Gulf Islands, is believed to have started in one of two diesel engines.