Category Archives: British Columbia

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has appointed veteran mediator Vince Ready to help resolve what it says is an "incredibly challenging" bus strike in the Fraser Valley. CUPE Local 561 has be...

VANCOUVER - For the first time this year, air quality advisories are posted for part of Vancouver Island and a large section of the Lower Mainland as smoke from several wildfires wafts over the region...

RICHMOND, B.C. - T&T Supermarkets, the largest chain of Asian grocery stores in Canada, is expanding into the U.S. with a store in Bellevue, Washington, set to open next summer. The Richmond, B.C....

VANCOUVER - The nondescript parking lot at the centre of debate about the future of Vancouver's historic Chinatown is unchanged in the six years since plans to build a condo tower there were shot down...

ATLIN, B.C. - A man who is helping return a 140-year-old Tlingit robe to the British Columbia First Nation where it was created says it's as if the regalia called out to its people and they are bringi...

SURREY, B.C. - Chronic issues for patients and staff at one of British Columbia's largest hospitals have prompted an immediate and long-term expansion plan to ease tensions. Health Minister Adrian Dix...

CRANBROOK, B.C. - Mounties in Cranbrook, B.C., say a mechanical failure of a loaded logging truck set off a crash east of the community that killed three people in an oncoming vehicle. The crash on Hi...

VICTORIA - Buffet meals on BC Ferries, put on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic, will no longer be available on voyages between the mainland and Vancouver Island. The company says in a statement the a...

VANCOUVER - A small but aggressive wildfire on Vancouver Island is burning beside the only major highway linking Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet to the rest of British Columbia. The route is closed ...

VANCOUVER - A new font to typeset Salish Indigenous languages means so much more than just the words that it will be used to write, one of the people behind its creation says. Vanessa Campbell, a Musq...