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VANCOUVER - A new report ahead of next week's B.C. budget is forecasting slower economic growth for the province this year. The Business Council of British Columbia says "lacklustre" growth globally, ...
Feb 15, 2024
KELOWNA, B.C. - A new report says British Columbia's wine industry is anticipating "catastrophic crop losses" of up to 99 per cent of typical grape production due to January's intense cold snap. A Feb...
Feb 15, 2024
VANCOUVER - Police in North Vancouver say a car stolen from an underground parking lot Tuesday had a piece of equipment containing radioactive material inside. Mounties say they responded to a theft c...
Feb 14, 2024
VANCOUVER - West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. says it lost US$153 million in its fourth quarter, a steeper loss than US$94 million a year earlier. Sales for the quarter ended Dec. 31 were US$1.5 billion, do...
Feb 14, 2024
KELOWNA, B.C. - This season will likely be the most challenging cherry growers have ever experienced in British Columbia, a farmer and industry leader says, after a widespread cold snap damaged trees ...
Alex Rawnsley Feb 14, 2024
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Premier David Eby says his government will provide almost $80 million to help upgrade Abbotsford's Barrowtown Pump Station, which was nearly overwhelmed in 2021 by atmospheric river...
Feb 14, 2024
VICTORIA - Veteran British Columbia politician Mike de Jong has announced he will leave the legislature after a 30-year career in government and opposition. De Jong, who was first elected as a B.C. Li...
Feb 14, 2024
RICHMOND, B.C. - The next step for a controversial supervised safe consumption drug site has been approved by council members in Richmond, B.C., after two days of highly charged hearings. The council ...
Feb 14, 2024
TORONTO - Premier Doug Ford's government has a plan to get its blue licence plates off the roads, four years after discovering they are barely visible at night - and that plan is to sit back and wait....
Feb 14, 2024
VANCOUVER - Boston Pizza Royalties Income Fund raised its monthly payment to unitholders as it reported a fourth-quarter profit of $5.2 million. The fund says it will now pay a monthly distribution of...
Feb 14, 2024