Category Archives: British Columbia
Judge tells Ibrahim Ali jury to disregard testimony of Crown witness who died
VANCOUVER - The judge in the first-degree murder trial of Ibrahim Ali, who is accused of killing a Burnaby, B.C., teenager six years ago, has told the jury to completely disregard the testimony of a w...
Nov 07, 2023
Woman missing from B.C. First Nation along Highway of Tears found dead
VANDERHOOF, B.C. - A woman who disappeared from a First Nations community in central British Columbia last month has been found dead. Vanderhoof RCMP and the Saik'uz First Nation say the remains of Ch...
Nov 06, 2023
Crown and defence say driver should serve 3 years after killing two UBC students
RICHMOND, B.C. - The man who killed two University of British Columbia students in a high-speed crash sobbed in court as the mother of one of his victims described her grief as "woven into my DNA." Ti...
Nov 06, 2023
Israel, Hamas conflict causes surge of discrimination, B.C. rights commissioner says
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's human rights commissioner says the devastating events in and around the Gaza Strip are causing a surge of discrimination and violence targeting Jewish and Muslim people....
Nov 06, 2023
Sex offender Randall Hopley removed his ankle bracelet to avoid court date: police
Vancouver police say high-risk sex offender Randall Hopley was likely worried about an upcoming court appearance and took "deliberate actions" to avoid it when he walked away from his Vancouver halfwa...
Nov 06, 2023
Two properties in southern B.C. evacuated as rock slide severs part of Highway 3
KEREMEOS, B.C. - A rock slide has closed a major southern British Columbia highway in both directions outside Keremeos, about 300 kilometres east of Vancouver. The Okanagan-Similkameen Regional Distri...
Nov 06, 2023
Avian Flu detected at Abbotsford poultry operation
ABBOTSFORD - Canadian authorities have detected the presence of avian flu at two B-C locations over the weekend.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says presence of avian flu was detected on Saturday ...
Nov 06, 2023
Sex offender in 2011 B.C. child abduction wanted Canada-wide
A high-risk sex offender who abducted a three-year-old boy in 2011 is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant after failing to return to his halfway house in Vancouver. Police say 58-year-old Randall Hopley w...
Nov 05, 2023
B.C. conditions are magic for mushrooms in bumper season for fungi, tasty and toxic
VANCOUVER - Mushrooms large and small, tasty and toxic, are popping up across British Columbia this year in what experts say is a bumper season for fungi. B.C. forest ecologist and mycologist Andy Mac...
Nov 04, 2023
Air Canada admits it violated disability regulations in case of B.C. man
VANCOUVER - Air Canada has acknowledged it violated Canadian disability regulations and apologized to a British Columbia man who uses a wheelchair, after he was forced to drag himself off a flight in ...
Nov 03, 2023