Category Archives: British Columbia

PORT ALBERNI - BC Hydro says crews have restored power for more than 500 customers in Bamfield on Vancouver Island after a wildfire caused extensive damage to infrastructure outside Port Alberni. BC H...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Court of Appeal says an Australian-born permanent resident who stabbed a man in Surrey, B.C., last year was given too light a sentence by a judge who improperly considered the imm...

Sometimes it happens without any more warning than the sound of cracking. A tree physiologist said that several years of repeated drought in British Columbia mixed with heat stress increased the likel...

RICHMOND - B.C.'s anti-gang agency says it has reached a milestone in a years-long investigation now that a woman who admitted to money laundering is set to be sentenced. The Combined Forces Special E...

VANCOUVER - The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs is calling a recent court decision on Aboriginal title on land along the Fraser River a "monumental" development, but says the case isn't about ...

The Federal Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that a cull of about 400 ostriches can proceed at a British Columbia ostrich farm that suffered an avian flu outbreak. Here are five things to know about ...

PORT ALBERNI - A wildfire near Port Alberni, B.C., that spurred evacuations and a state of local emergency last week has been downgraded again, leaving the province without any wildfires of note. The ...

EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Supporters of a British Columbia ostrich farm say they will converge on the property after it lost a court appeal to stave off a cull of its flock that was infecte...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected a bid by a British Columbia ostrich farm to prevent the culling of its flock that had been infected with avian flu. The court has dismissed two applic...

RICHMOND - Several daily rainfall records were shattered in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia on Friday, with the Vancouver breaking a record set over a century ago. Environmen...