Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C. Premier Horgan heads to California for climate deal with West Coast governors
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier John Horgan is travelling to San Francisco for meetings with leaders of U.S. West Coast states, where he expects to sign up to joint action on climate change. Horga...
Oct 05, 2022
Vancouver police probe Komagata Maru vandalism, after smashing of Olympic cauldron
VANCOUVER - Police are investigating the vandalism of the Komagata Maru memorial on Vancouver's downtown waterfront, and whether it's connected to the recent smashing of the nearby Olympic Cauldron. T...
Oct 05, 2022
Man pleads guilty to killing three, including mother and brother in Langley, B.C.
VANCOUVER - The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says a man from Langley, B.C., has pleaded guilty to murdering three people in 2020, including his mother and brother. The homicide team says in ...
Oct 04, 2022
How Coal Miner's Daughter Loretta Lynn got her big break in a Vancouver chicken coop
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is a long way from the Appalachian coal fields, but the role that a south Vancouver chicken coop played in the rise of country music legend Loretta Lynn is being recalled ...
Oct 04, 2022
Police in B.C. kill bear that attacked two women then guarded them from rescue: RCMP
DAWSON CREEK, B.C. - A black bear is dead and two women are critically hurt after an attack near Dawson Creek, B.C. Mounties say they were called around 6:50 Monday night to a report that a black bear...
Oct 04, 2022
New rules coming for mortgage brokers following B.C.'s money laundering probe
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is bringing in new laws to replace the outdated Mortgage Brokers Act as it follows recommendations from an inquiry into money laundering. Finance Minister Se...
Oct 04, 2022
Crews battle out-of-control wildfire in regional park in B.C.'s Lower Mainland
COQUITLAM, B.C. - A regional park in British Columbia's Lower Mainland has been closed since Saturday as crews battle a wildfire sparked in persistently hot and dry conditions. The Metro Vancouver Reg...
Oct 04, 2022
B.C. attorney general says increasing arrests to fight violent crime is 'futile'
VICTORIA - British Columbia's attorney general says the government has no plans to arrest its way out of the province's crime issues because it won't work. Murray Rankin says fighting crime by arresti...
Oct 04, 2022
B.C. breaking its own law on climate-change reporting, Sierra Club tells court
VANCOUVER - An environmental group has gone to court against the British Columbia government for allegedly failing to report if its climate plans will achieve key greenhouse gas emissions targets, as ...
Oct 04, 2022
Vancouver home sales down 46% from last Sept., 10% from August: board
VANCOUVER - The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says September's home sales dropped by 46 per cent since last year and 10 per cent from August as interest rate increases cooled buyer sentiment....
Oct 04, 2022