Category Archives: British Columbia

Telus to buy ADT Security Services Canada for roughly $700 million
VANCOUVER - Telus Corp. has signed a deal to buy ADT Security Services Canada Inc. for roughly $700 million. ADT Canada has approximately 500,000 customers and approximately 1,000 staff across the cou...
Oct 01, 2019

Courtenay-Alberni candidates try to firm up support in front of large crowd
PARKSVILLE - All-candidate forums in the Oceanside region typically means standing room only crowds, and the latest installment was no different.Five candidates hoping to be the next Member of Parliam...
Sep 30, 2019 (L-R) Barbara Biley, Jonah Gowans, Byron Horner, Gord Johns and Sean Wood attended a two-hour Courtenay-Alberni all-candidates forum Monday night in Parksville. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)

Piranhas found in B.C. lake likely unwanted pets: conservation service
NANAIMO, B.C. - British Columbia conservation officers say two piranhas found in a Vancouver Island lake were likely unwanted pets. One red-bellied piranha was reeled in by an angler at Westwood ...
Sep 30, 2019

Nothing 'sinister' about airport questioning of Huawei exec Meng Wanzhou: Crown
VANCOUVER - A Crown prosecutor says the actions of Canadian officials during the arrest of Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver's airport were "not at all sinister" and followe...
Sep 30, 2019

Suspects confessed to B.C. murders in videos but showed no remorse: RCMP
SURREY, B.C. - Two suspects confessed to the murders of three people in northern British Columbia in several videos taken before they shot themselves in a suicide pact, the RCMP said Friday....
Sep 29, 2019

Groups test rescue, cleanup responses during major marine exercise in B.C.
PORT HARDY, B.C. - Nearly two dozen agencies were responding to an environmental emergency off Vancouver Island on Thursday, but fortunately it was only a drill. Vessels and members from the Cana...
Sep 28, 2019

Log truck convoy drives home message about dire state of B.C. forest industry
MERRITT, B.C. - A convoy of logging trucks gained some attention as protesting drivers blew their horns while winding their big rigs through Vancouver streets on Wednesday. As many as 2...
Sep 27, 2019

'No need' for lengthy border exam of Meng Wanzhou before her arrest: defence
VANCOUVER - The defence team for a Huawei executive whose arrest at Vancouver's airport sparked a diplomatic crisis between Canada and China says there was no good reason for border officials to ...
Sep 27, 2019

Vancouver Park Board rejects injunction to oust campers from downtown park
VANCOUVER - Park board commissioners in Vancouver have voted not to seek an injunction that would have cleared a tent encampment from a Downtown Eastside park. Commissioners heard from 22 sp...
Sep 27, 2019

RCMP to release report today on B.C. homicides that sparked massive manhunt
SURREY, B.C. - The investigative findings from the homicides of three people in British Columbia are being released today by the RCMP, more than seven weeks after the bodies of two teen...
Sep 27, 2019