British Columbia

Cable of Sea to Sky Gondola near Squamish, B.C., cut again, causing major damage

SQUAMISH, B.C. - The operators of a popular tourist gondola near Squamish, B.C., say the cable of the ride has been severed for the second time. Squamish RCMP say the damage to the Sea to Sk...

Sep 14, 2020

Flames rip through waterfront park, damage boardwalk in New Westminster, B.C.

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A waterfront park along the Fraser River in New Westminster, B.C., has been extensively damaged by a major fire. New Westminster Mayor Jonathan Cote called the situation at Pie...

Sep 14, 2020

U.S. wildfire smoke blankets B.C., wafts east to Alberta, affecting air quality

VANCOUVER - Environment Canada says air quality advisories posted across most of British Columbia since last week should spread east across Alberta due to wildfire smoke from ...

Sep 14, 2020

After COVID-19 quashes Musical Ride, rider pens children's books set in iconic event

PENTICTON, B.C. - Retired Mountie Katherine Hansen was overjoyed when she was offered a second stint in the RCMP's iconic Musical Ride this summer, but just days before she was to join the team i...

Sep 14, 2020

B.C. amends law in effort to address sky-high condo and townhouse insurance

VICTORIA - The B.C. government has announced regulatory changes aimed at bringing more transparency to condo insurance premiums that have risen by as much as 40 per cent. The Finance Ministr...

Sep 13, 2020

Smoke from distant fires in U.S. pose 'very high risk' for air quality in B.C.

VANCOUVER - Environment Canada has issued a special air quality statement for Metro Vancouver, showing a very high risk to health due to wildfire smoke from Washington and Oregon. The a...

Sep 12, 2020

One entangled humpback whale off B.C. coast free of fishing gear

VANCOUVER - One of the three humpback whales entangled in fishing gear off the coast of British Columbia is now free, although the two other animals have not been located. The Department of Fisheries ...

Sep 11, 2020

B.C. moves to end divisive old-growth forest policies, protects nine areas

HAZELTON, B.C. - The British Columbia government says it's taking a new and more all-encompassing approach to protecting the province's old-growth forests. Forests Minister Doug Donaldson says the gov...

Sep 11, 2020

$30M in improvements coming for B.C. logging road where two students died

VICTORIA - Improvements are coming to a narrow logging road on Vancouver Island where members of the local First Nations as well as two university students have lost their lives. Indigenous Relations ...

Sep 11, 2020

B.C. auditor general outlines costs of government's pandemic response so far

VICTORIA - A new report from British Columbia's auditor general says the largest amount the provincial government had allocated by mid-August in its pandemic response was for individual...

Sep 11, 2020