Category Archives: British Columbia
Father of boy abducted in 2011 wasn't told about Hopley's escape from halfway house
VANCOUVER - The father of a boy abducted in 2011 by Randall Hopley, a high-risk sex offender now wanted on a Canada-wide warrant, said he's incredulous that Hopley could walk away from a Vancouver hal...
Nov 07, 2023
Judge says man who hit and killed two fellow UBC students should serve 3 years
RICHMOND, B.C. - A British Columbia judge has ruled that a 23-year-old man who hit and killed two University of British Columbia students while he was speeding through the campus in 2021 should serve ...
Nov 07, 2023
Indigo reports lower sales, net loss in second quarter as customers cut back
TORONTO - Indigo Books & Music Inc. reported a net loss of $22.4 million in its second quarter, down from a net loss of $15.9 million a year earlier. Revenues for the Toronto-based retailer were $...
Nov 07, 2023
Judge tells Ibrahim Ali jury to disregard testimony of Crown witness who died
VANCOUVER - The judge in the first-degree murder trial of Ibrahim Ali, who is accused of killing a Burnaby, B.C., teenager six years ago, has told the jury to completely disregard the testimony of a w...
Nov 07, 2023
Woman missing from B.C. First Nation along Highway of Tears found dead
VANDERHOOF, B.C. - A woman who disappeared from a First Nations community in central British Columbia last month has been found dead. Vanderhoof RCMP and the Saik'uz First Nation say the remains of Ch...
Nov 06, 2023
Crown and defence say driver should serve 3 years after killing two UBC students
RICHMOND, B.C. - The man who killed two University of British Columbia students in a high-speed crash sobbed in court as the mother of one of his victims described her grief as "woven into my DNA." Ti...
Nov 06, 2023
Israel, Hamas conflict causes surge of discrimination, B.C. rights commissioner says
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's human rights commissioner says the devastating events in and around the Gaza Strip are causing a surge of discrimination and violence targeting Jewish and Muslim people....
Nov 06, 2023
Sex offender Randall Hopley removed his ankle bracelet to avoid court date: police
Vancouver police say high-risk sex offender Randall Hopley was likely worried about an upcoming court appearance and took "deliberate actions" to avoid it when he walked away from his Vancouver halfwa...
Nov 06, 2023
Two properties in southern B.C. evacuated as rock slide severs part of Highway 3
KEREMEOS, B.C. - A rock slide has closed a major southern British Columbia highway in both directions outside Keremeos, about 300 kilometres east of Vancouver. The Okanagan-Similkameen Regional Distri...
Nov 06, 2023
Colorado Republican Ken Buck plans to challenge GOP's direction under Trump as he leaves the House
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Ken Buck has had enough. When the Colorado Republican announced this past week that he would not seek reelection, he began with the type of criticism of Democratic policies that...
Nov 04, 2023