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If you open a community paper in Surrey, you’re bound to find a flyer from an American retailer.

While consumers might rejoice at the prospect of finding cheaper goods in the U.S., Surrey businesses are more likely to cringe at the cross-border fight for shoppers…

Twenty-three years after the end of Communism in Hungary, the country has taken a tentative step towards opening the secret files of the era to the public, the last former East Bloc country to do so.
Justice minister Tibor Navracsics said in parliament that a new bill would cater for the…

Three summers ago the company that wants to build the largest coal export terminal in North America failed to obtain the environmental permits it needed before bulldozing more than four miles of roads and clearing more than nine acres of land, including some wetlands.

The fierce competition for the Canadian shopping dollar just across the border in Washington state has spawned an idea to steer the sometimes-myopic Canuck shoppers away from malls and big-box stores, to the mom-and-pop shops.

About 30,000 copies of "The Crossing Guide" magazine…

Who crosses the border at Point Roberts? The picture painted by a recent survey is overwhelmingly one of Canadians who come down for gas and mail, and they only stay on the Point for 15 minutes.

This year Point Roberts was included in the Whatcom Council of Governments (COG) and Western…

From Alaska to Southern California, something is killing the West Coast’s sea stars ­– the ubiquitous, child-friendly favorite of tide-pool explorers everywhere –­ and nobody knows why.

Yet.

Benjamin Miner, as associate professor of Biology at Western Washington University, has…

One night on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota nearly four decades ago, a 36-year-old Roman Catholic priest asked a young boy to share his bed.

The boy was about 9 or 10 years old. As he climbed into bed, he asked the priest a question: Are you going to molest me, like my…