Category Archives: British Columbia
Five-foot fence post thrown at Vancouver city bus window, police say
VANCOUVER - Metro Vancouver Transit Police say they are investigating after a five-foot metal fence post was allegedly thrown at the windshield of a city bus on Friday night. They say the impact shatt...
Jan 28, 2023
Stolen licence plate leads to drug trafficking charges for Vernon, B.C., man
VERNON, B.C. - Mounties in B.C.'s Interior say a Vernon man has been charged for drug trafficking after his vehicle was allegedly found with a stolen Saskatchewan licence plate. They say an officer no...
Jan 28, 2023
B.C. boy handcuffed, mother says children's hospital should have been safe space
VANCOUVER - The mother of a 12-year-old Indigenous boy who was handcuffed by police at B.C. Children's Hospital in Vancouver says it should have been a safe place for her son, who has autism, but he w...
Jan 27, 2023
129 neglected cattle seized from B.C. property with 'numerous' dead animals: SPCA
CAWSTON, B.C. - Animal protection officers with the SPCA have seized 129 cattle from a property in southeastern British Columbia. The society says the neglected cattle were being housed in substandard...
Jan 27, 2023
B.C. health minister Dix 'delighted' premiers finally set to meet PM on funding
VICTORIA - British Columbia's health minister says he's "delighted" Canada's premiers are set to meet with the prime minister early next month to discuss a potential deal to increase federal health fu...
Jan 27, 2023
FortisBC Holdings Inc. signs agreement with First Nation over B.C. LNG project
SURREY, B.C. - FortisBC Holdings Inc. says it has signed a deal with a First Nation in British Columbia over the Tilbury liquefied natural gas expansion projects. The subsidiary of utilities company F...
Jan 27, 2023
B.C. First Nations face complex, stressful choice: should school sites be excavated?
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The chief of the Williams Lake First Nation says he would support excavating possible unmarked graves at the site of the former St. Joseph's Mission residential school if that's ...
Jan 27, 2023
Western Forest Products' Port Alberni, B.C., mill closes as company seeks viable path
VANCOUVER - More than 100 workers in Port Alberni are the latest forest industry employees to face layoffs as Western Forest Products confirms it will not restart its sawmill in that Vancouver Island ...
Jan 27, 2023
Chorus of support has Vancouver folk fest board reviewing cancellation, letter says
VANCOUVER - A groundswell of support for the Vancouver Folk Music Festival has its board of directors rethinking plans to cancel this year's event and dissolve the society. An open letter from the boa...
Jan 26, 2023
Additional information required as B.C. government mulls Surrey police transition
VICTORIA - British Columbia's public safety minister says his government needs to know more before it decides on the "unprecedented" request to reverse a change from municipal policing in Surrey in a ...
Jan 26, 2023