15 more of B.C.'s top news stories from 2011

There has been no shortage of major news stories in B.C. in 2011, from the swearing in of a new premier, to the RCMP sex harassment allegations, to Vancouver’s Stanley Cup riot — to name just a few.

CBC News asked readers to make their own choice from a list of 10 stories in an interactive feature that was posted last month. Voting closed Friday at 6 p.m.

The top B.C. news story of 2011 will be announced Wednesday.

But a list of ten just wasn’t enough to contain all of the province’s big stories.

Here are 15 others, worth looking back on — listed according to the number of reader visits to them  — from this tumultuous year, in descending order, starting with the most "popular":

1. Basi Virk's BC Rail legal payout — continuing fallout 
2. B.C. Lions win the Grey Cup in Vancouver
3. RCMP sexual harassment 
4. Former premier Gordon Campbell leaves politics and awarded Order of B.C.
5. Boston Bruins win Stanley Cup
6. Christy Clark becomes premier
7. Jack Layton's death
8. Fukushima nuclear incident and impact on B.C.
9. Enbridge pipeline through B.C.
10. High B.C. housing prices
11. Child poverty
12. Cohen Commission on salmon
13. Former B.C. bureaucrat cops corruption plea
14. Smart meters 
15. Teachers' job action