Category Archives: British Columbia
Emergency Expansion Officially Opens
PORT ALBERNI - The new addition to the West Coast General Hospital was officially opened on Friday. The Emergency Wing expansion project created 2600 square feet of new area, which has improved workin...
Dec 06, 2023
Police Arrest Stabbing Suspect
PORT ALBERNI - Port Alberni RCMP arrested the man they believe stabbed another man to death at the Port Pub apartments last month. According to an RCMP press release, police arrested 30-year-old Dylan...
Dec 06, 2023
Teenager Drowns in Sproat Lake
PORT ALBERNI - Port Alberni RCMP say they have recovered the body of a drowning victim in Sproat Lake. The update comes two days after R-C-M-P were called to the lake for reports of a missing 17-year-...
Dec 06, 2023
High Coliform Discovered in Raw Water
PORT ALBERNI - A popular source of spring water showed high levels of coliform recently, according to Sproat Lake area director Penny Cote. The water runs out a pipe that juts out of a rock in the Tay...
Dec 06, 2023
Dock+ looking to expand
The former Port Fish facility is a hub of activity again, with multiple fishery and resource businesses working out of the restored building. Operated by the Port Alberni Port Authority, president and...
Dec 06, 2023 Saint-Petersburg, Russia - October 31, 2016: electric platform pallet truck in loading dock area inside cold storage warehouse.
B.C. chief coroner Lisa Lapointe retiring, saddened by overdose crisis policy
VICTORIA - British Columbia's Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe has announced she is leaving her post after 13 years, deeply saddened the province has been unable to reduce the "tragic impacts" of toxic dru...
Dec 06, 2023
CP NewsAlert: Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim moves to axe elected Park Board
VANCOUVER - Mayor Ken Sim says he's moving to abolish Vancouver's elected Park Board, which is the only such body in any British Columbia city. Sim says at a news conference in City Hall that he'll be...
Dec 06, 2023
Bank of Canada to announce interest rate decision today, expected to hold at 5%
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is set to announce its interest rate decision this morning as forecasters widely expect the central bank to continue holding its key rate steady. The Bank of Canada opted t...
Dec 06, 2023
Coast Guard investigates oily sheen covering Vancouver's False Creek
VANCOUVER - The Canadian Coast Guard says it's trying to identify the source of a diesel smell and sheen covering Vancouver's False Creek. It says it received a report of the apparent pollution around...
Dec 05, 2023
B.C. moves to reduce raw log exports, boost higher-value wood manufacturing
VICTORIA - British Columbia is moving to reduce the export of raw logs harvested in the province by requiring that certain types of lumber from the Interior undergo manufacturing first. A statement fr...
Dec 05, 2023