Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C. to allow killing of abandoned domestic sheep to protect the wild animals
VICTORIA - The B.C. government has changed its regulations to give wildlife officers more power to kill escaped or abandoned domestic sheep to order to protect wild sheep populations. The province say...
Apr 27, 2026
Trial of ex-Mountie charged with security offence concludes in B.C. court
VANCOUVER - The trial of a former Mountie accused of a security offence in relation to his work helping the Chinese government has concluded in British Columbia Supreme Court, with his defence counsel...
Apr 27, 2026
Intimate partner-related deaths in B.C. 'overwhelmingly preventable,' report says
VANCOUVER - A death review panel convened by British Columbia's chief coroner says 135 deaths they studied in relation to intimate partner violence were "overwhelmingly preventable." The deaths occurr...
Apr 27, 2026
Man arrested after officer allegedly hit in face at logging protest in B.C. Interior
SALMO - Two men have been arrested after police tried to remove a small group of protesters blocking a logging road in the British Columbia Interior, with one man allegedly hitting an officer in the f...
Apr 27, 2026
LNG pipeline project through 'pristine wilderness' faces B.C. court challenges
VANCOUVER - A Gitxsan Nation hereditary chief is challenging the B.C. government's decision to allow a pipeline to go through what he calls "pristine wilderness," on the strength of a 12-year-old envi...
Apr 27, 2026
B.C. says new regulations effective this fall will curb extortion-related violence
VICTORIA - Provincial gun regulations that have been nine years in the making will come into effect in British Columbia this fall, shutting down what ministers calls loopholes in federal laws that hav...
Apr 27, 2026
B.C. reports 138 work-related deaths in 2025; occupational diseases the leading cause
RICHMOND - British Columbia's workers' compensation agency says 138 people died on the job or from workplace injuries and illnesses last year. WorkSafeBC says in a statement that 79 of those deaths we...
Apr 27, 2026
Shell goes big on Canadian gas with $22B deal to buy ARC Resources
CALGARY - Shell plc has signed a $22-billion deal to acquire ARC Resources Ltd., bringing together the lead partner in Canada's first operating liquefied natural gas project with a major producer in o...
Apr 27, 2026
B.C. home sales expecting 2.1 per cent slide in 2026 as economic challenges mount
VANCOUVER - Home sales in British Columbia are forecast to fall 2.1 per cent this year as economic challenges push volume and prices lower across the province. The B.C. Real Estate Association says in...
Apr 27, 2026
Suspected cocaine, fentanyl, mushrooms seized as two arrested in Kelowna, B.C., bust
KELOWNA - Two men have been arrested in a co-ordinated bust in British Columbia's Interior that saw police seize more than 10 kilograms of illicit substances along with other items related to a drug d...
Apr 27, 2026