Category Archives: British Columbia

B.C. motorcyclist dies after crashing into car, falling onto highway
DELTA, B.C. - Police say a motorcyclist is dead in a crash Wednesday that snarled morning traffic for Metro Vancouver commuters. A statement from the RCMP says the rider drove into a car then fell ont...
Jun 12, 2024

B.C. driver dies from injuries days after windshield crash on highway
SURREY, B.C. - The driver injured when a rock crashed through her vehicle's windshield last week on a Metro Vancouver highway has died. BC Highway Patrol Cpl. Melissa Jongema confirmed that the vehicl...
Jun 12, 2024

Man charged with murder in stabbing death of Vancouver restaurant chef
VANCOUVER - Vancouver police have arrested and charged a 32-year-old man in the stabbing death of a Japanese restaurant chef near the city's Chinatown last week. Police say Timothy Isborn faces a seco...
Jun 12, 2024

Wildfire forecast anticipates high risk for new wildfires in Prairies, N.W.T.
OTTAWA - The wildfire season has been less dire so far this year than 2023, but the risk is high across most of the country for new fires to erupt this summer. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Cen...
Jun 12, 2024

Environment Canada issues thunderstorm warnings, watches in B.C., Alberta
VANCOUVER - Environment Canada has issued severe thunderstorm warnings and watches for large sections of central Alberta and parts of B.C., saying hail, damaging winds and torrential rainfall are poss...
Jun 11, 2024

Vancouver port open to recommendations from TSB after seaplane-boat collision
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority says it is "certainly possible" that rules surrounding seaplanes operating in the city's downtown harbour could change in light of an aircraft colliding...
Jun 11, 2024

Rescuers work overnight to save teen and his dog after fall down B.C. embankment
ELKO, B.C. - First responders in southeastern British Columbia say a teen and his dog have been rescued after falling "several hundred feet" down an embankment. A statement from the Regional District ...
Jun 11, 2024

Iconic B.C. museum reopens after 'cutting-edge' 18-month seismic upgrade
VANCOUVER - One of Canada's most prominent museums is reopening after an 18-month upgrade for "cutting-edge" base-isolation retrofitting that would allow it to survive a once-in-2,500-year earthquake....
Jun 11, 2024

ATV crash in B.C. kills 15-year-old boy, passenger suffers minor injuries
BARRIRE, B.C. - A 15-year-old has died when the all-terrain vehicle he was driving overturned near Barriere, B.C. Mounties say the crash north of Kamloops happened Sunday near the two-kilometre mark o...
Jun 11, 2024

Federal Court judge finds minister took too long in case of endangered spotted owl
A judge has sided with a British Columbia group that argued the federal environment minister took too long by waiting more than eight months to recommend an emergency protection order for the endanger...
Jun 11, 2024