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VANCOUVER - The Musqueam Indian Band and the City of Richmond each say they are appealing the recent B.C. Supreme Court decision that found another First Nation government holds Aboriginal title for l...
Sep 05, 2025
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's energy minister says the federal decision to delay its electric vehicle sales mandate largely reflects circumstances in Ontario, and Ottawa should follow through on a mo...
Sep 05, 2025
A co-owner of the B.C. ostrich farm fighting to stop a cull of its 400-strong flock says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is "actively mobilizing" to destroy the birds over the next few days, and i...
Sep 05, 2025
VANCOUVER - The organizer of the Vancouver street festival where 11 people were killed in a vehicle-ramming attack last spring says the tragedy continues to reverberate through the community, and it n...
Sep 05, 2025
VIEW ROYAL - An RCMP underwater recovery team has been sent to Upper Thetis Lake on southern Vancouver Island to help find the body of a 19-year-old man. Police say witnesses reported the man going un...
Sep 05, 2025
SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., say they believe an early morning shooting in a residential neighbourhood is linked to "an ongoing extortion investigation." Police say the shooting happened around 3:...
Sep 05, 2025
VICTORIA - An immigration expert says ending the temporary foreign worker program won't solve "deep structural problems" with housing and other issues in British Columbia, while having "problematic co...
Sep 05, 2025
VANCOUVER - The estate of acclaimed Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau is being sued in British Columbia by a fellow painter who says Morrisseau sexually assaulted him in 2006. A lawyer for the estat...
Sep 05, 2025
NELSON - Police in British Columbia say they have suspended the search of a man missing since July in the province's backcountry. RCMP say search and rescue teams have been canvassing an area along a ...
Sep 05, 2025
VANCOUVER - Environment Canada's special air-quality statements for wildfire smoke have now expanded to cover most of British Columbia, with air quality at its worst possible level in parts of the Fra...
Alex Rawnsley Sep 05, 2025 While smoke from nearby wildfires is expected to linger over eastern Vancouver Island for the time being, weather experts don't predict it'll reach the level of an air quality warning. (Jordan Davidson/NanaimoNewsNOW.com)