Category Archives: British Columbia
'Disgusting': Plan to slash B.C. pipelines' taxable value could hit local revenues
VICTORIA - British Columbia Finance Minister Brenda Bailey said she would look into a plan by BC Assessment that would cut the taxable value of pipelines and other projects in a move that has angered ...
Oct 31, 2025
Police say more charges laid against woman accused of Vancouver stranger assaults
VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver say more charges have been laid against the suspect in a series of stranger assaults in Yaletown earlier this month. The Vancouver Police Department says the 35-year-ol...
Oct 31, 2025
Halloween drenching for much of British Columbia amid wind and rainfall warnings
Much of British Columbia is facing a soaked Halloween as wind and rainfall warnings cover much of the central province, parts of the south and central coasts and Vancouver Island. The rainfall warning...
Oct 31, 2025
Ostrich farm rallies support as court says it will decide next week if it hears case
Canada's highest court says it will rule next Thursday whether to tackle a bitter dispute between the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and a British Columbia ostrich farm over the ordered destruction o...
Oct 31, 2025
Police take down armed man wearing body armour after shootings in Fort St. John, B.C.
FORT ST. JOHN - Police say a 22-year-old man has been charged over a string of gun-related incidents in Fort St. John, B.C., where he was allegedly found wearing body armour and carrying a loaded gun,...
Oct 30, 2025
B.C. Mountie faces multiple gun charges in case spanning three years
VICTORIA - A Merritt, B.C., RCMP officer is facing a series of firearms-related charges including possessing firearms obtained through the commission of a crime. A statement from the BC Prosecution Se...
Oct 30, 2025
B.C. Green Leader Lowan calls Eby 'greedy' over early election threat
VICTORIA - B.C. Green Leader Emily Lowan said Premier David Eby's threat of an early election if a bill to fast-track a multibillion-dollar northern power line fails is a "cheap trick" that would leav...
Oct 30, 2025
Elections BC seeks to lengthen campaigns by three days, warns about child donors
VICTORIA - Elections BC says British Columbia should extend the campaign period for fixed-date elections and byelections by having "writ day" and the close of nominations occur on Wednesdays instead o...
Oct 30, 2025
First Nation buying two more B.C. casinos, including Richmond's River Rock
NANAIMO - The Snuneymuxw First Nation announced Thursday that it is buying two British Columbia casinos, including the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond. A statement from the Nanaimo-area nation sa...
Oct 30, 2025
B.C. festival attack case adjourned to January amid thousands of pages of evidence
VANCOUVER - Hearings for the man accused of murdering 11 people at Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day festival have been adjourned until January to give his lawyer time to assess thousands of pages of document...
Oct 30, 2025