Category Archives: British Columbia

RCMP Bomb Squad investigate apartment
Port Alberni RCMP along with the explosives disposal unit from Vancouver are searching a Burde Street apartment today. Police raided the building yesterday morning and neighbours say multiple guns wer...
Mar 27, 2024

Indigenous nation gives stranded B.C. killer whale calf name: Brave Little Hunter
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A marine scientist says he expects rescue efforts to help coax a stranded killer whale calf from a shallow lagoon off northern Vancouver Island to continue today despite federal Fishe...
Mar 27, 2024

Trudeau says premiers complaining about carbon price didn't pitch better ideas
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing back against premiers who are asking him to cancel an upcoming increase to the federal carbon price, saying they have not proposed better ideas to fig...
Mar 26, 2024

Lawsuit accuses B.C. gas utility of deceiving consumers over environmental impact
VANCOUVER - An environmental group is suing British Columbia natural gas utility FortisBC, accusing it of "greenwashing" its product through advertising, making the company seem more environmentally f...
Mar 26, 2024

Stranded orca was pregnant, while efforts to save her other calf turns on rising tide
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A necropsy on the killer whale that died after being stranded off northern Vancouver Island shows she was pregnant with another calf. Marine scientist Jared Towers watched the necrops...
Mar 26, 2024

Small drug seizures down in Vancouver post-decriminalization, police say
VANCOUVER - Data from Vancouver police shows a "dramatic" drop in small drug seizures after decriminalization came into effect in British Columbia last year. The department says during the first nine ...
Mar 26, 2024

Environment Canada issues dust advisory for Houston, B.C., joins Burns Lake
HOUSTON, B.C. - Environment Canada has added a dust advisory for Houston, B.C., in response to "high concentrations of coarse particulate matter" that it says is most prominent near busy roads. The we...
Mar 26, 2024

Need to improve Canadian productivity has reached emergency level, BoC official says
HALIFAX - A senior Bank of Canada official says the need to improve productivity has reached an emergency level as the economy faces a future where inflation may be more of a threat than in the past f...
Mar 26, 2024

Time of essence amid efforts to reunite orphaned B.C. orca calf with its pod
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - Intense efforts are underway to reunite an orca calf with its family pod after its mother was stranded and died in a tidal lagoon near the remote northern Vancouver Island village of ...
Mar 25, 2024

Child dies in fall through ice at lake in B.C.'s Cariboo region
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Mounties in Williams Lake, B.C., say a child has died in a plunge through the ice on Tyee Lake, in the province's Cariboo region. Police say it happened Saturday when the utility...
Mar 25, 2024