Category Archives: British Columbia

LANGFORD - The new campus of Royal Roads University is being named after the late John Horgan, honouring the former B.C. premier in the Vancouver Island community of Langford where he lived. Premier D...

Before British Columbia fossil hunter Mike Trask died last week, he knew that recognition of his biggest discovery would live on. Now it has been confirmed that the ferocious-looking marine reptile he...

VICTORIA - "Do you want to go faster?" Jayne Imeson already knew the answer she was going to get from her six-year-old son, Casey, sitting astride his new steed in a park in Central Saanich, B.C. He n...

SQUAMISH - A 22-year-old woman is dead after a fatal slack-line incident at a recreation area north of Vancouver. Squamish RCMP say they received a report on Friday afternoon of a female falling from ...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver has a new police chief, with the appointment of Steve Rai to the role he has already been filling on an interim basis. Mayor Ken Sim says Rai brings more than three decades of ex...

First Nations leaders in British Columbia say proposed legislation to fast-track resource projects will likely lead to protests and litigation should the provincial government push the law through. Ro...

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver have released new data they say depicts the success of a task force launched three months ago to curb crime in the city's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. The data corr...

VANCOUVER - The City of Vancouver has started work to consolidate temporary memorials near the site of the Lapu Lapu Day festival attack, but an advocacy group says it's too soon. Workers at one memor...

VICTORIA - A stretch of culturally significant land in the Cowichan Valley has been returned to the Lyackson First Nation and Cowichan Tribes communities. The British Columbia government says the retu...

VANCOUVER - The BC Crown Counsel Association says it has filed a formal workload grievance against the BC Prosecution Service over what it calls "inadequate staffing" in its Okanagan and Kootenay offi...