Category Archives: British Columbia

Alberni Valley residents could be voting on a $67 million wave pool in an upcoming referendum. After an online survey this past fall, it was determined that Alberni Valley residents want a pool with s...

KELOWNA, B.C. - A bus carrying a Western Hockey League junior team has slid off a highway in British Columbia's Interior, but the team says no one was injured. A social media post from the Seattle Thu...

VANCOUVER - A man has been arrested after a near-collision in Vancouver resulted in a pedestrian pulling out a gun and shooting at a driver. Police say the shooting happened Saturday on Commercial Dri...

REVELSTOKE, B.C. - Environment Canada is warning parts of northern British Columbia to expect wind chill values as cold as -50 C for at least the rest of the week. An extreme cold warning issued for t...

VANCOUVER - The former head of the B.C. Search and Rescue Association says the group's volunteer personnel have been bullied, threatened and disrespected by the province's Ministry of Emergency Manage...

VANCOUVER - West Fraser Timber Co. says it's closing one U.S. sawmill and indefinitely curtailing another because of high fibre costs and soft lumber markets. The Vancouver-based company says it's clo...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia is phasing out the pap test for cancer screening in favour of mail-in kits collected by patients. The government says trials have shown that screening for the human papill...

Homeowners in Port Alberni saw their property values drop an average of 2% this year according to BC Assessments North Port property values dropped the most at 4.3% while South Port dropped 2.8% and r...

Friends and family are mourning the death of former Port Alberni city councillor Helen Poon - who also ran provincially for the BC Liberals in the Mid-Island-Pacific Rim riding. Poon was travelling in...

City Council wants to complete an Official Community Plan by the end of this year. The last OCP was written two decades ago and according to Mayor Sharie Minions, is hugely outdated. "Our past OCP spe...