Category Archives: British Columbia

Almost 40 temperature records broken across B.C. Saturday, Environment Canada says
VANCOUVER - Balmy weather across much of British Columbia helped set dozens of new temperature records across the province on Saturday. Environment Canada says a ridge of high pressure brought warm te...
Mar 17, 2024

Man in Abbotsford, B.C., charged with second-degree murder in wife's death
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - British Columbia's integrated homicide investigation team says a man in Abbotsford, B.C., has been charged with murder in the death of his wife. IHIT says in a news release that off...
Mar 17, 2024

RCMP seek witnesses after stabbing on Surrey, B.C., city bus
SURREY, B.C. - Mounties in Surrey are investigating a weekend stabbing on a city bus that has sent a man to the hospital. They say it happened shortly before 2:40 p.m. on Saturday when officers got wo...
Dave Barry Mar 17, 2024

B.C. 911 dispatch service 'functioning as normal' following unplanned outage
VANCOUVER - The dispatch service that handles most of British Columbia's 911 calls says its lines are again operating as normal after an "unplanned outage" Saturday morning. A spokeswoman with E-Comm ...
Dave Barry Mar 16, 2024

School expansion announcements for Langley
LANGLEY - B.C.'s Ministry of Education says the fast-growing community of Langley is getting a new middle school to meet growing enrolment demands. Education Minister Rachna Singh says the new school ...
Dave Barry Mar 16, 2024

Abbotsford, B.C., police arrest 50-year-old man for woman's death
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Police in Abbotsford say a man has been arrested in the death of a woman after officers responded to a report of an assault at a home in the city Friday night. They say that patrol ...
Mar 16, 2024

Victoria police notebook left in possession of suspected criminal for eight days
VICTORIA - Police in Victoria say a notebook containing personal information of 54 people was mistakenly left in the possession of a suspected criminal for eight days. Police say an officer left the n...
Mar 15, 2024

Tribunal orders Flair to pay up for spoiled seafood caused by baggage delay
VICTORIA - A tribunal says Flair Airlines must fork over hundreds of dollars in compensation to a man whose crab meat and fish cakes went bad in his luggage, which was delayed for several days. In a r...
Mar 15, 2024

Orcas that hunt the world's biggest predators may be a new population, say scientists
VANCOUVER - Researchers from the University of British Columbia say they've identified a potentially new population of open-ocean orcas, that hunt the biggest predators on the planet. In a newly publi...
Dave Barry Mar 15, 2024

Woman murdered at home near University of B.C. campus, two arrested, say police
VANCOUVER - Police say two people have been arrested after the murder of a woman at a home on the edge of the University of British Columbia campus. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says in ...
Mike VandenBosch Mar 14, 2024