Meera Bains

Surrey lawyer Narindar Pal Kang has been handed a suspension from practicing by the BC Law Society for two months starting on July 1. He was charged with assault and mischief in relation to a domestic altercation involving his spouse.

B.C. businessman Asa Johal, a revered Sikh pioneer, has died at the age of 98. Johal, who would have turned 99 in August, immigrated to Canada in 1924 with his parents and went on to establish sawmills, manufacturing plants and a trucking operation.

A group of Lytton residents told their town council they want a say in rebuilding their community.

The Wet’suwet’en First Nation is calling for third doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to be administered to eligible community members after two recent deaths and four elders tested positive for the coronavirus, according to their chief.

A nurse who says she was assaulted while working at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster on Halloween night is demanding better security for health-care workers.

B.C. Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau says, for her, the need for more transparency and collaboration in government are two of the biggest takeaways from the province’s three states of emergency this year.

Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum did not appear in person for his first court date on a charge of public mischief over a police complaint he made in September, with his lawyers attending online on his behalf instead.

A new report entitled The Road to Safety shows that Indigenous women and gender-diverse people in B.C. are facing a significant increase in domestic violence during the pandemic, highlighting the need for culturally appropriate services.

Voters will be heading to the polls in the Surrey South byelection in less than two weeks. The vote is shaping up to be a low-key test of how the province’s political parties are faring, particular in the area of health care.

Surrey mayoral candidate Gordie Hogg who has decades of political experience from having been the mayor of White Rock, a provincial MLA and a federal MP, is jumping into a highly competitive and heated political race for the city’s top job under the Surrey First banner.