Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon says B.C. is launching a registry for short-term rentals to further crack down on "speculators" operating illegally. Kahlon says all short-term rental operator...

VANCOUVER - A Finnish developer wants to bring a 250-room floating hotel into Vancouver's harbour. A statement from Sunborn International Holding says the proposed hotel would be 136 metres long and 1...

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. - The Port of Prince Rupert says cargo shipments were up at its container terminal for liquefied petroleum gas and crop exports, but volume for last year was down by one per cent f...

RICHMOND, B.C. - The union representing almost 6,000 ambulance paramedics and dispatchers in British Columbia is sounding an alarm on staffing levels "reaching critical" in the province. In a statemen...

VANCOUVER - A boat was destroyed in the waters of the Indian Arm fjord near North Vancouver's Deep Cove on Saturday afternoon after it caught fire, smouldered for over three hours and sank. A spokespe...

The leader of B.C.'s Opposition Conservative Party says Premier David Eby is putting people in the province at risk by "threatening a trade war" with the United States rather than working with the Ame...

VANCOUVER - Crews in downtown Vancouver are demolishing a more than century-old heritage building that the city's chief building official says is so badly damaged it is at risk of collapse. The buildi...

As the female orca known as Tahlequah once again carries the body of a dead calf through waters near Vancouver Island, for the second time in seven years, researcher Barbara J. King says there's no mi...

NANAIMO - Two unrelated Bitcoin scams involving significant volumes of digital currency burned a pair of Nanaimo area men this week. Nanaimo RCMP say both incidents occurred on Wednesday, January 15 w...

OTTAWA - Canadian colleges and universities are responding to a cash crunch brought on by Ottawa's cut to international student permits with layoffs, hiring freezes and service reductions, say people ...