Category Archives: British Columbia
Four B.C. companies divvy $6.75 million in provincial funding to expand their work
KELOWNA - Four manufacturing businesses in British Columbia are being given a total of $6.75 million to help expand their production, while creating more than 100 jobs. B.C. Premier David Eby was in K...
Apr 08, 2026
B.C. Premier Eby defends coffee-with-doctors recruitment after 'stunt' accusation
KELOWNA - British Columbia Premier David Eby is praising the jolt the province got from a campaign to attract doctors over a cup of coffee despite criticism of wasteful spending from a national taxpay...
Apr 08, 2026
David Eby confident Indigenous MLAs will vote to pause B.C's DRIPA legislation
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby said he's sure his government will retain the legislature's confidence and pass his plan to suspend sections of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenou...
Apr 08, 2026
B.C. man gets 15 years in prison Metro Vancouver shooting death in 2024
MAPLE RIDGE - A Metro Vancouver man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the killing of another man in Maple Ridge almost two years ago. Homicide investigators say 27-year-old Alexander Delair...
Apr 08, 2026
Former commercial pilot Shaheer Cassim admits guilt in B.C. plane hijacking
RICHMOND - Federal prosecutors say a British Columbia man has pleaded guilty to two terrorism offences after he stole a small plane on Vancouver Island last July, triggering a security incident at Van...
Apr 08, 2026
Fisheries expands mass marking of hatchery chinook in southern B.C.
VANCOUVER - The Fisheries Department is expanding its program that marks chinook from hatcheries in southern British Columbia, distinguishing them from wild salmon. A statement from the department say...
Apr 08, 2026
Photo gallery: A decade of death — B.C. counts drug emergency's cost
Next week marks the 10th anniversary of the declaration of a public health emergency in response to British Columbia's drug overdose crisis, which has since claimed more than 18,000 lives. Grieving fr...
Apr 08, 2026
B.C. woman detained by ICE for three weeks in Texas calls experience 'traumatizing'
KINGSVILLE, TEXAS, UNITED STATES - The Canadian woman who spent three weeks detained by immigration officers in the United States along with her seven-year-old daughter says it was "the most stressful...
Apr 08, 2026
Decade of death: With 18,000 lives lost, B.C. counts cost of 10-year drug emergency
VANCOUVER - Brandon Jansen's mother says he was a warm and inviting "health nut" who enjoyed time at the gym. He was also known for taking people under his wing at some of the 13 drug treatment facili...
Apr 08, 2026
A timeline of British Columbia's 10-year overdose health emergency
VANCOUVER - The 10 years of British Columbia's public health emergency due to drug overdoses has been marked by a catastrophic death toll, which now stands at more than 18,000. Here are some key dates...
Apr 08, 2026