British Columbia

Campfire ban to be rescinded in Cariboo Fire Centre

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Campfires will be allowed in the Cariboo Fire Centre (CFC) this weekend.Effective 12:00 noon Friday (June 16), the CFC says its Category One campfire prohibition will be rescinde...

Jun 15, 2023

Global salmon farm company with B.C. ties backs land-based aquaculture in Japan

VICTORIA - The backing of a land-based salmon farm in Japan by a global company with ties to ocean fish farms in British Columbia has Indigenous and conservation groups calling on the federal governme...

Jun 15, 2023

Four found dead in Prince Rupert, B.C. home; police say deaths considered homicide

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. - Four people have been found dead in a home in British Columbia's northwest in what police is calling a homicide. Prince Rupert RCMP say officers responded to a call on Tuesday ev...

Jun 14, 2023

B.C. border agents find 6,300 kg of meth, including largest single seizure to date

DELTA, B.C. - The Canada Border Services Agency says it has confiscated more than 6,300 kilograms of methamphetamine in British Columbia over the last six months, including the largest ever single sei...

Jun 14, 2023

B.C. provides universal coverage for opioid treatments

VICTORIA - British Columbia says it is providing universal coverage for opioid agonist treatments that help people with substance use disorders, making it the first province in Canada to do so. Health...

Alex Rawnsley Jun 14, 2023

B.C. school district bans man who queried gender of girl, 9, at track meet

KELOWNA, B.C. - A man has been banned from events at a British Columbia school district after a mother said he interrupted a track meet to wrongly suggest her nine-year-old daughter was transgender an...

Jun 14, 2023

Northern B.C. wildfire nudges key northern highway, Island route still cut by flames

VANCOUVER - A key highway that connects Yukon and northern British Columbia to the rest of the province is now threatened by the huge Donnie Creek wildfire as the blaze chews through woodlands south o...

Jun 14, 2023

Missing Australian hiker found dead in B.C.'s East Kootenay region

KIMBERLEY, B.C. - An Australian hiker has been found dead after being reported missing over the weekend in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia. Kimberley RCMP say police were alerted Sunday a...

Jun 13, 2023

2023 marked as worst wildfire season of the 21st century for Canada

NANAIMO - With more than 4.7 million hectares of forest burned, 2023 is now the worst wildfire season this century in Canada. Emergency preparedness minister Bill Blair said hundreds of firefighters c...

Jun 13, 2023

Women gardening in Prince George, B.C., is bitten by coyote

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - A woman is nursing minor injuries after being bitten by a coyote while she was doing some gardening in Prince George, B.C. A statement from the B.C. Conservation Officers Service...

Jun 13, 2023