Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - Vancouver police have arrested five men, and recovered more than 24 kilograms of illicit drugs, after a lengthy investigation into a gang originally from Quebec. A statement from the depar...

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Marc Miller says British Columbia needs to step up and take on more asylum seekers who come to Canada. He was responding today to criticism from the B.C. premier, who say...

VANCOUVER - Copperleaf Technologies Inc. has signed a deal to be acquired by IFS AB in an agreement valued at about $1 billion. Under the deal announced before markets opened Tuesday, IFS will pay $12...

FIELD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Parks Canada says a rare white grizzly bear has died of injuries that happened when she was struck by a car on the Trans-Canada Highway in British Columbia's Yoho Nat...

PENTICTON, B.C. - Mounties in Penticton, B.C., are looking for witnesses after they say a 93-year-old woman was pushed in front of a moving city bus. Police received a report around 11 a.m. on Wednesd...

FORT NELSON, B.C. - The wildfire that forced 4,700 people to leave their homes in Fort Nelson, B.C., is now listed as under control. The BC Wildfire Service says in a social media statement that the 1...

SURREY, B.C. - Police and the British Columbia Securities Commission say they have delivered warnings to 10 suspected "money mules" in an effort to fight investment fraud aimed at people in the provin...

WHITEHORSE - Premiers from across Western Canada are wrapping up meetings in Whitehorse today aimed at discussing common concerns in their region. The premiers of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, ...

SQUAMISH, B.C. - Rescue teams in Squamish, B.C., say they have not completely halted efforts to find three missing mountaineers last seen on May 31 despite the physical search being temporarily suspen...

British Columbia says it is not ruling out regulating wild mushroom picking after an Indigenous community said a rising number of foragers are infringing on its land, with one case involving alleged t...