Category Archives: British Columbia
Homicide team looking into 'suspicious' disappearance of a B.C. man
BURNABY - The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says it is taking over the case of a missing man from Burnaby, B.C. The unit says in a news release that the disappearance of 45-year-old Masood Ma...
Feb 04, 2026
Police suspected 'murder-suicide' in Prince Rupert family's deaths: B.C. official
An inquest into the deaths of a B.C. family of four has heard for the first time that police characterized the deaths as a suspected murder-suicide, as well as a recorded police interview describing t...
Feb 04, 2026
Media exclusion zone during 2023 Vancouver decampment 'unlawful,' report finds
VANCOUVER - Police and the City of Vancouver took "unlawful" actions when restricting media access as city workers broke up a Downtown Eastside homeless encampment in 2023, but they are unwilling to a...
Feb 04, 2026
Abbotsford, B.C., man now charged with first-degree murder in death of a woman
ABBOTSFORD - Police say an Abbotsford, B.C., man is now facing an upgraded charge of first-degree murder in the death of a 30-year-old woman who was found dead inside a hotel last month. Homicide inve...
Feb 04, 2026
10 candidates in B.C. Conservative leadership race as Banman and Kooner join field
VICTORIA - B.C. Conservative MLAs Bruce Banman and Steve Kooner are joining the contest to lead the party, pushing the field of candidates into double digits. Abbotsford-South MLA Banman says in an in...
Feb 04, 2026
Tribunal rules disabled renter severely mistreated, orders $100K damages
VANCOUVER - A substantial BC Human Rights Tribunal (HRT) ruling blasted the conduct of a landlord's family members who made life miserable on a vulnerable Lower Mainland downstairs tenant. Catherine L...
Feb 04, 2026 A costly judgment was recently awarded against a family after their downstairs tenant resoundingly won a BC Human Rights Tribunal hearing. (Image Credit: Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)
Asylum claims won't stop extortion suspects facing justice: Immigration Department
VICTORIA - Canada's Immigration Department says claiming asylum "cannot, and will not" prevent criminals being punished, after British Columbia's premier criticized refugee claims by extortion suspect...
Feb 04, 2026
B.C. minister says Ottawa is missing from the table on flood mitigation planning
OTTAWA - British Columbia's minister of emergency management is accusing the federal government of being absent from flood mitigation planning meetings following two major flooding events in her provi...
Feb 04, 2026
Parents of B.C.'s Piper James grieve on Australian beach where she died
BRISBANE - The parents of Canadian teenager Piper James have walked in the surf and taken part in a traditional Aboriginal ceremony on an Australian beach where their daughter was found dead last mont...
Feb 04, 2026
What's a 'thumper'? B.C. RCMP describe devices in an unneighbourly noise dispute
When two RCMP officers responded to a call about screams coming from a Burnaby, B.C., condo in late October last year, they forcibly entered the unit believing someone might be in trouble. Instead, th...
Feb 04, 2026