British Columbia

'It isn't a future thing.' Climate change is taking a toll on Canada's lighthouses

HALIFAX - For more than 150 years, the stout and tidy Walton Harbour lighthouse in Nova Scotia has stood watch from a cliff overlooking the upper Bay of Fundy. But in recent years, coastal erosion lef...

Dec 31, 2024

Vancouver's Bench Accounting to be acquired by California-based HR tech company

VANCOUVER - A California-based HR tech company says it will acquire a Vancouver-based bookkeeping service that abruptly halted operations last week. Bench Accounting announced its sudden closure on Fr...

Dec 30, 2024

B.C. police watchdog looks into injury of man arrested for urinating on RCMP station

SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia's police watchdog is seeking witnesses after a man was arrested for urinating on an RCMP station then found to have sustained an injury. The Independent Investigations ...

Dec 30, 2024

Vancouver Island police investigate car in ditch, find driver with gunshot wounds

VANCOUVER - Police on Vancouver Island say an early morning report of a car in a ditch took a turn when they discovered the driver had been shot multiple times. West Shore RCMP say officers were respo...

Dec 30, 2024

Rogers activates new cellular towers on B.C.'s Highway of Tears to boost 911 access

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - Telecom giant Rogers Communications says it has activated five new cellular towers along British Columbia's Highway of Tears, marking the "substantial completion" of efforts to i...

Dec 30, 2024

B.C. labour board approves service reductions as inland ferry strike escalates

VANCOUVER - Inland ferry services that are crucial to several small communities in southeast British Columbia face being further cut from today as a labour dispute on Kootenay Lake escalates. The West...

Dec 30, 2024

Artist and activist Joe Average dies at 67, after life as vivid as his paintings

VANCOUVER - Vancouver's Joe Average was an artist, advocate and activist whose bright, multicoloured images were as multi-faceted as his existence. But his sister Karin Carson says she used to giggle ...

Dec 30, 2024

Man charged after nurse attacked, seriously injured at B.C. hospital

PORT MOODY, B.C. - A man has been charged with allegedly assaulting a nurse at a Metro Vancouver hospital in an incident police say left her seriously injured last month. Police in Port Moody say a ch...

Dec 30, 2024

New Brunswick to issue roadside suspensions for impaired driving starting Jan. 1

FREDERICTON - Motorists in New Brunswick will be subject to stiff new penalties for impaired driving beginning Jan. 1. Changes to the province's Motor Vehicle Act give police discretion to issue an im...

Dec 30, 2024

Complaints about avocados and cologne make list of B.C.'s worst 911 calls

British Columbia's emergency call service has released its annual list of the most unusual and inappropriate 911 calls, including complaints about overripe fruit and an overly fragrant neighbour. E-Co...

Dec 30, 2024