British Columbia

'Invasion of privacy': Watchdogs concerned about apps tracking COVID-19 patients

VANCOUVER - Privacy watchdogs are voicing concerns over proposals across the country to implement smartphone apps to help track COVID-19. New Brunswick, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Saskat...

May 02, 2020

James resolute about government's $1.5 billion cushion to aid COVID-19 recovery

The British Columbia government is counting on its $1.5-billion economic recovery fund to get the province through the turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic, says Finance Minister Carole James. J...

May 01, 2020

Colliers says 21% of surveyed business tenants asking for rent relief

VANCOUVER - Real estate firm Colliers International says about one in five commercial tenants surveyed requested April rent relief as the COVID-19 shutdown hit business activity. The company says that...

May 01, 2020

Wet'suwet'en pact with Ottawa and B.C. disputed by elected chiefs

SMITHERS, B.C. - Elected chiefs of a First Nation that's split over a natural gas pipeline through their territories say they will not sign a deal on rights and title, a day after the hereditary ...

May 01, 2020

Crews resurfacing Inland Island Hwy. between Parksville and Bowser

PARKSVILLE - An extensive project is seeing a 40 kilometre stretch of Highway 19 on mid Vancouver Island smoothed.A Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) statement to NanaimoNewsNOW sai...

May 01, 2020 Crews are actively resurfacing the slow lanes of the Inland Island Highway between Parksville and Bowser. (MOTI)

B.C. RCMP issues warning after seizing 1,500 unauthorized COVID-19 tests

RICHMOND, B.C. - Health Canada and the RCMP have seized more than 1,500 unauthorized COVID-19 test kits from a British Columbia resident. Mounties say they were acting on a tip from the Canadian ...

Apr 30, 2020

Wet'suwet'en agree to deal with government over rights and title

SMITHERS, B.C. - Hereditary chiefs who oppose a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia say they will sign an agreement with the federal and provincial governments that affirms their ti...

Apr 30, 2020

B.C. defers stumpage fees for 3 months to aid forest industry during pandemic

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is deferring a timber harvesting fee charged to forest companies in an effort to help the struggling industry survive during the COVID-19 pandemic. Forests M...

Apr 30, 2020

Former Green leader Andrew Weaver wins appeal in defamation lawsuit

VANCOUVER - Former B.C. Green leader Andrew Weaver has been granted an appeal in a defamation lawsuit against a retired geography professor. In a unanimous decision released Thursday, the B.C.&nb...

Apr 30, 2020

The people who cared for him: How a single COVID-19 case moved through the system

VANCOUVER - The call came in on an afternoon in March: a patient at a medical clinic in Vancouver complained of chest pains. Paramedic Jeff Booton watched the details flash across ...

Apr 30, 2020