Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C. introduces crowd-sourcing mechanism to protect old-growth forests, more habitat
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is moving to protect more old-growth forests and critical habitat with a type of crowd-source funding. Premier David Eby says the government will work with t...
Oct 26, 2023
U.S. man sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex exploitation of 3 B.C. children
SURREY, B.C. - An Oregon man has been sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. federal prison for sexually exploiting three British Columbia children. RCMP say 37-year-old Kevin McCarty of Happy Valley, Ore., ...
Oct 26, 2023
Body found at Langley, B.C., building explosion not a homicide: police
LANGLEY, B.C. - Investigators have determined that a body found at the scene of an explosion in Langley, B.C., was not murder. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says in a statement that polic...
Oct 26, 2023
Sikh activists in B.C. emboldened by Trudeau's comments on India ahead of referendum
SURREY, B.C. - Organizers of an upcoming vote on an independent Sikh state say Canada's allegations of India's links to the killing of activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar have significantly bolstered vocal ...
Oct 26, 2023
B.C. man sentenced to 18 months for 2019 overdose death of 14-year-old Carson Crimeni
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A man has been sentenced to 18 months in jail with another 18 months of conditional supervisionafter pleading guilty to manslaughter in the high-profile overdose death of a 14-...
Oct 26, 2023
CP NewsAlert: Vancouver police raid drug activists' office, two arrested
Vancouver police have executed search warrants at the offices of the Drug User Liberation Front, an activist group that says it runs a "compassion club" for distributing drugs. Police arrested two peo...
Oct 26, 2023
West Fraser Timber third-quarter earnings, sales lower compared with last year
VANCOUVER - West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. says it earned US$159 million in the third quarter, compared with US$216 million a year earlier. The Vancouver-based company says sales were US$1.7 billion, dow...
Oct 25, 2023
Driver pleads guilty over 2021 crash that killed two University of B.C. students
VANCOUVER - The BC Prosecution Service says a Vancouver man accused in the dangerous driving deaths of two University of British Columbia students has pleaded guilty. Dan McLaughlin, a spokesman with ...
Oct 25, 2023
Inmate hospitalized after assault at Matsqui federal prison in Abbotsford
ABBOTSFORD - Abbotsford Police investigators are looking into an assault that occurred over the weekend at a prison near the University of the Fraser Valley. According to a statement dated Tuesday, Oc...
Oct 25, 2023
'Elegant' low-carbon energy projects planned by northern B.C. First Nation: Eby
VICTORIA - A northern British Columbia First Nation has signed an agreement with the province to work together on what Premier David Eby calls an "elegant" proposal for a clean energy hub on band terr...
Oct 25, 2023