Category Archives: British Columbia
Police say threats made against schools in Coquitlam, B.C., for third straight day
COQUITLAM - Police in the Metro Vancouver community of Coquitlam say more threats have been made toward local schools, setting off safety protocols. Coquitlam RCMP did not say how many schools were ta...
Feb 06, 2026
Pipeline protest created safety risks, but journalists were let in, says RCMP officer
VANCOUVER - The senior RCMP officer co-ordinating enforcement at a British Columbia pipeline protest in 2021 says journalists were permitted to go through an "access control point" set up by police, a...
Feb 06, 2026
B.C. seeks to appeal DRIPA ruling in top court, says 'core democratic values' at risk
VICTORIA - A First Nations leader says the British Columbia government wants amendments that propose a "gutting" of its own reconciliation legislation. Robert Phillips, a member of the political execu...
Feb 06, 2026
Lamborghini driver caught doing 197 km/h over Metro Vancouver bridge
DELTA - A Lamborghini driver from Surrey, B.C., will be without his car for a week and thousands of dollars after police say they caught him driving nearly 200 km/h. B.C. Highway Patrol says the 51-ye...
Feb 06, 2026
Fitness trial begins for man accused of killing B.C. Mountie Shaelyn Yang in 2022
VANCOUVER - The hearing to determine if a man accused of killing RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang is fit to stand trial has begun in the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver. Jongwon Ham, who appeared at the hearing...
Feb 06, 2026
B.C. needs new mental health hospital, psychiatrist tells inquest into family's death
BURNABY - A psychiatrist with British Columbia's Northern Health authority has called for a new mental health hospital in B.C. in her testimony to an inquest into the deaths of a Prince Rupert family....
Feb 06, 2026
B.C.'s Warm weather forces those in ice-fishing derby into boats
Krista Clark is an avid ice fisher, but it was a late start to the season in British Columbia's East Kootenay region where she's lived for 47 years. "This year, it's been just waiting and waiting for ...
Feb 06, 2026
Inside the 'con code', the unwritten rules that may be fuelling prison violence
VANCOUVER - In a Surrey, B.C., pretrial centre, an inmate is goaded into fighting his cellmate - dubbed a "rat" by fellow prisoners - but then dies after being put in a 10-minute chokehold. In a Vanco...
Feb 06, 2026
Court issues $6,000 in fines to two people who killed Tex, the B.C. grizzly
TEXADA ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Two people who killed a controversial grizzly bear on Texada Island off the B.C. coast last year have been fined a combined $6,000 by a provincial court judge. The B....
Feb 05, 2026
Homicide team shares photo of missing B.C. mathematician, Masood Masjoody
BURNABY - Homicide investigators have released a photo of a missing mathematician from Burnaby, B.C., to help with their search for the man. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says 45-year-old...
Feb 05, 2026