Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - The union representing port supervisors in British Columbia is formally challenging the legal and constitutional authority of the federal labour minister to order them back to work. In a l...

TORONTO - The Writers' Trust of Canada is set to hand out seven awards and more than $330,000 in prize money at its annual awards bash tonight. Prizes include outstanding debut book by an LGBTQ2S+ eme...

VANCOUVER - The Transportation Safety Board says it's investigating after a Boeing 767 cargo jet went off a runway at Vancouver International Airport. The airport says the Cargojet flight went off the...

VANCOUVER - The use of terms including "atmospheric rivers" and "bomb cyclones" to describe weather phenomena has moved out of scientific journals and into the mainstream in recent years, but meteorol...

A series of meteorological terms associated with extreme weather have become popularized in recent years. Here's how some of them are defined by the American Meteorological Society: BOMB CYCLONE A sto...

OTTAWA - The Canada Border Services Agency says it will be adjusting hours at 35 land ports of entry in January -- a move it says will allow it to deploy officers at busier land crossings. Only one cr...

VICTORIA - There's been a near total shakeup of British Columbia's government cabinet, with few ministers retaining their jobs and some longtime backbenchers and newly elected members moving in. Here ...

SURREY - Mounties in Surrey, B.C., say they are investigating a fiery overnight crash that killed two people and caused a partial shutdown of Highway 99. RCMP say officers responded to a report of a v...

VANCOUVER - Environment Canada is warning about an intensifying storm that is expected to bring powerful winds to Vancouver Island and the British Columbia coast this week. Matt MacDonald, the lead fo...

VANCOUVER - Orla Mining Ltd. has signed a deal to buy the Musselwhite gold mine in Ontario from Newmont Corp. Under the deal, the company will pay US$810 million plus up to an additional US$40 million...