Category Archives: British Columbia

OTTAWA - India is defending its diplomatic actions a day after Ottawa announced it had pulled most of its envoys from the country over what it called a precedent-setting diplomatic threat. India's Min...

VICTORIA - A British Columbia health expert says the province needs more overdose prevention sites and a renewed commitment to decriminalization as it tries to curb drug poisonings that kill six peopl...

VANCOUVER - A Federal Court judge says he's "wrestling" with why the minister responsible for protecting the northern spotted owl waited eight months to recommend an emergency protection order to cabi...

VANCOUVER - Rainfall warnings across Vancouver Island and the inner south coast have lifted in most areas, but the effects of British Columbia's first atmospheric river of autumn could take a little l...

BURNABY, B.C. - The union representing instructors, teaching assistants and other education support workers at Simon Fraser University says it has reached a tentative agreement, ending a strike that b...

VANCOUVER - London Drugs president Clint Mahlman says the company has no plans to close stores due to escalating violence and theft, though the issue has reached a "crisis point" for Canadian retailer...

NANAIMO - The illegal capture and harvesting of a large elk proved costly for a Vancouver Island man. Kyle Emrys Watson-Harley was fined $5,100 and banned from hunting for two years following a senten...

VANCOUVER - An environmental group is in Federal Court in Vancouver challenging what it describes as Ottawa's failure to protect the endangered northern spotted owl despite an "imminent threat" to its...

LYTTON, B.C. - Former Lytton, B.C., residents are rallying to protest continual delays that they say have hampered their ability to rebuild more than two years after a devastating wildfire tore throug...

TORONTO - Super Mario is returning to his old stomping grounds for the first time in more than a decade. The mustachioed plumber is best known as the prototypical hero of Nintendo's popular two-dimens...