Category Archives: British Columbia
'The need is massive': call made to help Parksville apartment fire victims
PARKSVILLE - After fleeing their on-fire apartment building, residents now have to move everything out to make room for repairs. Thirty-eight people living in 32 units of Ocean Terrace Apartments in P...
Jul 14, 2017
Top sand sculptors on the planet converge on Parksville
PARKSVILLE - Some of the world’s top sculptors are in Parksville for Canada’s premier sand sculpting competition. The 35th annual Sand Sculpting Competition and Exhibition kicked off the P...
Jul 14, 2017
Officials say scattered showers won't help B.C. wildfires, wind may fuel flames
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Crews battling wildfires in British Columbia prepared for the worst as officials predicted stronger winds over the weekend after a slight reprieve from the weather in recent days...
Jul 14, 2017
B.C. election: Key developments from Day Eight on the campaign trail
VANCOUVER - A look at some key developments from Day Eight of the B.C. election campaign for each of the parties: LIBERALS: - Leader Christy Clark visited a concrete company in Fort St. John that is w...
Apr 18, 2017
B.C. Green health-care policy would cut delays, NDP pledges training and jobs
VICTORIA - The B.C. Green party is promising better health care in British Columbia, while New Democrat Leader John Horgan pledges to create almost 100,000 more jobs to start the second week of the el...
Apr 18, 2017
Former missing Olympian facing fraud charges appears in Victoria court
VICTORIA - An investment dealer and former Olympic rower who went missing for nearly 18 months made a brief appearance in a Victoria court Tuesday and had his case adjourned to May 2. Harold Backer, w...
Apr 18, 2017
Not guilty pleas entered for two accused men in B.C. polygamy trial
CRANBROOK, B.C. - The leader of a fundamentalist sect that condones plural marriage stood silently in a British Columbia courtroom Tuesday, hands clasped in front of a pressed black suit, as a B.C. Su...
Apr 18, 2017
B.C. candidates highlight health care, economy as election continues
ANCOUVER - The leaders of British Columbia's main political parties are taking shots at one another over health care and the economy as the election campaign continues ahead of the provincial vote on ...
Apr 18, 2017
B.C. fires Vancouver School Board after investigation into bullying, budget
VANCOUVER - All nine members of the Vancouver School Board have been fired following months of controversy over allegations of bullying in the workplace, the prospect of school closures and concern ov...
Oct 17, 2016
Crash of small jet in Kelowna, B.C., reminder of need for black boxes: TSB
KELOWNA, B.C. - The Transportation Safety Board renewed its call Monday for flight data or cockpit voice recorders to be carried on smaller planes after a jet crash in B.C. last week that killed four ...
Oct 17, 2016