British Columbia

B.C. boy handcuffed, mother says children's hospital should have been safe space

VANCOUVER - The mother of a 12-year-old Indigenous boy who was handcuffed by police at B.C. Children's Hospital in Vancouver says it should have been a safe place for her son, who has autism, but he w...

Jan 27, 2023

129 neglected cattle seized from B.C. property with 'numerous' dead animals: SPCA

CAWSTON, B.C. - Animal protection officers with the SPCA have seized 129 cattle from a property in southeastern British Columbia. The society says the neglected cattle were being housed in substandard...

Jan 27, 2023

B.C. health minister Dix 'delighted' premiers finally set to meet PM on funding

VICTORIA - British Columbia's health minister says he's "delighted" Canada's premiers are set to meet with the prime minister early next month to discuss a potential deal to increase federal health fu...

Jan 27, 2023

FortisBC Holdings Inc. signs agreement with First Nation over B.C. LNG project

SURREY, B.C. - FortisBC Holdings Inc. says it has signed a deal with a First Nation in British Columbia over the Tilbury liquefied natural gas expansion projects. The subsidiary of utilities company F...

Jan 27, 2023

B.C. First Nations face complex, stressful choice: should school sites be excavated?

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The chief of the Williams Lake First Nation says he would support excavating possible unmarked graves at the site of the former St. Joseph's Mission residential school if that's ...

Jan 27, 2023

Western Forest Products' Port Alberni, B.C., mill closes as company seeks viable path

VANCOUVER - More than 100 workers in Port Alberni are the latest forest industry employees to face layoffs as Western Forest Products confirms it will not restart its sawmill in that Vancouver Island ...

Jan 27, 2023

Chorus of support has Vancouver folk fest board reviewing cancellation, letter says

VANCOUVER - A groundswell of support for the Vancouver Folk Music Festival has its board of directors rethinking plans to cancel this year's event and dissolve the society. An open letter from the boa...

Jan 26, 2023

Additional information required as B.C. government mulls Surrey police transition

VICTORIA - British Columbia's public safety minister says his government needs to know more before it decides on the "unprecedented" request to reverse a change from municipal policing in Surrey in a ...

Jan 26, 2023

B.C. to install earthquake warning sensors to give life-saving notice

VICTORIA - Up to 50 earthquake early warning sensors are being installed around British Columbia as part of a larger plan to protect people and infrastructure in a big quake. The sensors will be conne...

Jan 26, 2023

House post returning to First Nation after 138 years, and decades in Harvard storage

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. - A First Nations house post is being returned to its home in British Columbia after 138 years, including spending the last two decades in storage at Harvard University in Massachu...

Jan 26, 2023