Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - The federal minister responsible for innovation and industry says Canada could be at risk of losing out on attracting green industries if it doesn't consider all options for renewable elec...

LANGLEY, B.C. - Mounties in Langley, B.C., say they are cancelling the Amber Alert issued for a four-month-old boy who was allegedly abducted by his mother on Thursday. Police say in a statement that ...

ZEBALLOS, B.C. - Ehattesaht First Nation Chief Simon John says a highly orchestrated attempt to rescue a killer whale calf stranded in a Vancouver Island lagoon could happen as early as next week. He ...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is bringing in changes to its Police Act to improve governance and oversight of municipal police departments in the province. The legislation, if passed, wou...

CRANBROOK, B.C. - The federal government and a British Columbia First Nation have reached a $7-million settlement over a lumber grievance that dates back to 1942. Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister G...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - British Columbia's premier says a training and education centre for wildfire fighters will be established in response to recommendations by a task force that looked into last year's c...

VANCOUVER - One person has been injured in a shooting in Vancouver's downtown core, the second such incident in the area in less than a week. Vancouver police say officers responded to reports of shot...

OTTAWA - World Central Kitchen is asking Canada to back its demand for an independent investigation into the Israeli airstrikes that killed seven aid workers. Canadian army veteran Jacob Flickinger wa...

ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A rescue effort that involves lifting a killer whale calf out of a remote tidal lagoon off northern Vancouver Island could happen within the next two weeks. Federal Fisheries Departme...

VANCOUVER - The mayor of Vancouver says the city is disappointed about the new location of an overdose prevention site in the downtown core. Ken Sim says in a news release that the city was not consul...