Category Archives: British Columbia
New book captures 'intimate look' at Terry Fox with journal entries, interviews
TORONTO - When Barbara Adhiya first learned that Terry Fox had run the length of a marathon a day during his journey across Canada, she was shocked. Like most Canadians, Adhiya had known about the ico...
Sep 14, 2024
Metro Vancouver's HandyDART strike continues after talks break with no deal
VANCOUVER - Mediated talks between the union representing HandyDART workers in Metro Vancouver and its employer, Transdev, have broken off without an agreement following 15 hours of talks. Joe McCann,...
Sep 13, 2024
26-year-old son is accused of his father's murder on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast
RICHMOND, B.C. - The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the 26-year-old son of a man found dead on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast has been charged with his murder. Police say 58-year-old H...
Sep 13, 2024
Kamloops, B.C., man charged with murder in the death of his mother: RCMP
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A 35-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder after his mother's body was found near her Kamloops, B.C., home a year ago. Mounties say 57-year-old Jo-Anne Donovan was f...
Sep 13, 2024
B.C. accepts change for psychiatric care after alleged attack by mentally ill man
VANCOUVER - A report into a triple stabbing at a festival in Vancouver's Chinatown last year says the man accused of the crimes had been let out of a psychiatric care facility 99 times in the year pri...
Sep 13, 2024
Four-day rescue operation freed a humpback whale off northern B.C.: DFO
A humpback whale was so entangled in fishing gear, ropes and buoys that it took four days for a Fisheries Department crew to unravel the mess, Paul Cottrell said. The rescue off British Columbia's coa...
Sep 13, 2024
Coastal GasLink fined $590K by B.C. environment office over pipeline build
VICTORIA - British Columbia's Environment Assessment Office has fined Coastal GasLink Pipeline Ltd. $590,000 for "deficiencies" in the construction of its pipeline crossing the province. The office sa...
Sep 12, 2024
B.C. to ensure fruit growers impacted by co-op closure are paid for past harvests
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says it is taking steps to ensure tree fruit growers are compensated for past harvests after the closure of a co-operative that had served farmers for almost...
Sep 12, 2024
B.C. to scrap consumer carbon tax if federal government drops legal requirement: Eby
VANCOUVER - British Columbia Premier David Eby says his government will end the provincial carbon tax on consumers and shift the onus to "big polluters" if the federal government removes a legal requi...
Sep 12, 2024
B.C. signs national pharmacare deal with Ottawa, promises to expand drug coverage
VANCOUVER - British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to sign a pharmacare agreement with the federal government that would help the province fund hormone replacement therapy and diabet...
Sep 12, 2024