Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C. First Nation declares emergency over drug and alcohol crisis
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A First Nation on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island has declared a state of emergency over what its leadership describes as the "unrelating impact of drugs and alcohol" on its m...
Feb 09, 2023
Former B.C. premier John Horgan to leave early as member of legislature
VICTORIA - Former British Columbia premier John Horgan says he is leaving politics, and gave an emotional farewell speech in the legislature. While he didn't give a specific time for his departure, he...
Feb 09, 2023
Gap in services for Indigenous people in B.C. correctional centres: audit
VICTORIA - An audit has found British Columbia's Provincial Health Services Authority did not consistently provide Indigenous inmates with mental health or addictions diagnoses with access to services...
Feb 09, 2023
Rescue team faces hurdles getting to Turkey quake, days after B.C. offer to Ottawa
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia search and rescue team is ready and willing to head to Turkey to help after a devastating earthquake, but it's facing multiple hurdles as it awaits approval from federal...
Feb 09, 2023
RCMP's shorter version of injunction prompts court's acquittal of B.C. protester
NANAIMO, B.C. - An old-growth logging protester accused of criminal contempt of court for blockading a forestry road has been acquitted because Mounties read out a short form of the court injunction. ...
Feb 09, 2023
RCMP say man and woman killed as fire sweeps through North Vancouver home
VANCOUVER - Two people have died in a house fire in North Vancouver. A statement from North Vancouver RCMP says the blaze engulfed the single-family home at about 3 a.m. Thursday. Several people escap...
Feb 09, 2023
Telus reports fourth-quarter profit down from year ago, revenue up
VANCOUVER - Telus Corp. reported its fourth-quarter profit fell compared with a year ago as its revenue climbed higher. The company says its net income attributable to common shares totalled $248 mill...
Feb 09, 2023
Urban search and rescue team from Burnaby, B.C., deploys to quake zone in Turkey
VANCOUVER - A team of urban search and rescue specialists from British Columbia has deployed to Turkey's earthquake zone after independently offering to help with what one Turkish official described a...
Feb 08, 2023
Devastation in Turkey echoes past quakes and offers B.C. lessons: profs
VANCOUVER - The earthquake that ravaged Turkey and Syria this week offers both lessons and warnings for people in British Columbia as images emerge of the human devastation and costly damage, Canadian...
Feb 08, 2023
B.C. forecasts more than one million jobs over next decade, health, tech key areas
VICTORIA - More than one million jobs will need to be filled in British Columbia in the next decade, and a labour outlook says about two-thirds of them will be needed to replace workers retiring. The ...
Feb 08, 2023