Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C. casinos will require all to show government ID under self-exclusion program
VANCOUVER - Everyone who enters a British Columbia casino will soon be required to present government-issued identification, in what the BC Lottery Corporation says is an initiative to support people ...
May 16, 2023
B.C. wildfires put all of Fort St. John on alert, nearby areas on evacuation order
Wildfires have prompted the City of Fort St. John, B.C., to tell all of its roughly 21,000 residents to get ready to leave on short notice, while the Peace River Regional District has issued an evacua...
May 16, 2023
B.C. to refer some cancer patients to Washington to cut radiation therapy wait
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's health minister says some cancer patients will be referred to two clinics in Washington in an effort to reduce wait times for radiation therapy. Adrian Dix says that fro...
May 15, 2023
Fort St. John, B.C., tells all 21,000 residents to prepare to evacuate as fire nears
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. - The City of Fort St. John in northeastern British Columbia has issued an evacuation alert telling all of its approximately 21,000 residents to get ready to leave in response to a...
May 15, 2023
Autopsy showed 13-year-old B.C. teen was strangled, pathologist tells murder trial
VANCOUVER - A forensic pathologist testifying in the trial of a man accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl in Burnaby, B.C., says she died by strangulation. Dr. Jason Morin, who conducted the autopsy...
May 15, 2023
Janice Abbott, embattled CEO of B.C. housing operator Atira, resigns after audit
VANCOUVER - The CEO of British Columbia housing operator the Atira Women's Resource Society is stepping down after an audit found a conflict of interest over her marriage to the former head of Crown s...
May 15, 2023
Man arrested after 'unprovoked' stabbing inside Surrey, B.C., hospital: Mounties
SURREY, B.C. - Mounties in Surrey, B.C., have arrested a 24-year-old man after a stabbing inside a local hospital. Police allege the man assaulted two people visiting another patient at Surrey Memoria...
May 15, 2023
Man and woman facing murder charges in March homicide in Maple Ridge, B.C.
MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. - A man and a woman from Maple Ridge, B.C., are both facing murder charges related to the death of a local man in early March. The province's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team s...
May 13, 2023
Two northern spotted owls found dead in B.C. forest, in blow to release program
SPUZZUM, B.C. - Two northern spotted owls that had been released into a British Columbia forest last year have been found dead, potentially reducing the known wild population in the province to a sing...
May 12, 2023
Social housing provider Atira gives back $2M to B.C. government, launches review
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia housing group that was named in a damning forensic audit says it has returned almost $2 million in surplus funds to the provincial government. Atira Women's Resource S...
May 12, 2023