Category Archives: British Columbia

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has introduced legislation it estimates could provide up to 100,000 new homes near designated transit areas over the next decade. The government says the pro...

VANCOUVER - Taylor Swift fans will try just about anything to boost their odds of getting tickets to her Vancouver concerts, including "manifesting" visions of pre-sale codes in their email inbox. Tic...

VICTORIA - Avian flu is spreading rapidly through British Columbia poultry farms, including half a dozen diagnosed in commercial flocks this week alone. The fall migration of wild birds is considered ...

OTTAWA - Further interest rate hikes from the Bank of Canada are very much still on the table as its governing council remains split on whether rates may need to rise further. The central bank today r...

OTTAWA, Kan. - Defence Minister Bill Blair says he recently instructed his team to rejig the Liberals' long-promised defence policy update, so as to give industry more clarity on long-term spending pl...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is issuing an impassioned plea for a "humanitarian pause" in the clashes between Israeli forces and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, to end the violence and "get back on...

KEREMEOS, B.C. - Crews have partially reopened a major highway through southern British Columbia as they deal with a rock slide that blocked the route west of Keremeos on Sunday. A geotechnical survey...

VANCOUVER - The father of a boy abducted in 2011 by Randall Hopley, a high-risk sex offender now wanted on a Canada-wide warrant, said he's incredulous that Hopley could walk away from a Vancouver hal...

RICHMOND, B.C. - A British Columbia judge has ruled that a 23-year-old man who hit and killed two University of British Columbia students while he was speeding through the campus in 2021 should serve ...

TORONTO - Indigo Books & Music Inc. reported a net loss of $22.4 million in its second quarter, down from a net loss of $15.9 million a year earlier. Revenues for the Toronto-based retailer were $...