Category Archives: British Columbia
Report shows B.C. has honoured pledge to deliver pandemic-postponed surgeries: Dix
VICTORIA - British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix says the latest report on surgery volumes in the province "demonstrates the strength" of the surgical system. Dix makes the comment as the Health...
Dec 19, 2022
B.C. universities to receive $4.3 million for innovation research funding: minister
VANCOUVER - Four British Columbia universities will receive $4.3 million from a government research and innovation program to help fund projects in the fields of health, technology and natural resourc...
Dec 19, 2022
Yukon wind chill below -50 C, more snow for southern B.C., as frigid system hits
VANCOUVER - Weather alerts blanket most of British Columbia, Yukon and a large portion of Alberta as a bitterly cold system sweeps across those regions and another round of snow threatens southern B.C...
Dec 19, 2022
'Glaciers can't get a break': How climate change is affecting Canada's icy landscape
VANCOUVER - On a mountain high above the residents of Metro Vancouver, tucked inside a north-facing gully, the region's last remaining glacier is vanishing fast. The Coquitlam Glacier has survived 4,0...
Dec 19, 2022
Heavy snow on Coquihalla, bitter cold in northwest and central B.C.: weather alert
VANCOUVER - Environment Canada is warning of heavy snow on the Coquihalla Highway and bitterly cold temperatures in British Columbia's northwest as arctic air sweeps across the province. Up to 20 cent...
Dec 17, 2022
Dreams of Chinese fame persist at Vancouver pageant, where stars are born
VANCOUVER - The eight women lining up to take questions included a pediatrician, a legal assistant and a piano teacher. But standing on stage in their bikinis at the River Rock Casino in Richmond, B.C...
Dec 17, 2022
Drivers warned as temperatures set to plummet from Vancouver to Yukon
SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia is warning drivers to prepare winter survival kits as a blast of frigid cold hits over the next week and the mercury plummets across the province. Temperatures over the...
Dec 16, 2022
B.C.'s Coquihalla Highway reopens to four lanes as repairs continue after 2021 floods
HOPE, B.C. - A stretch along a key highway that sustained severe damage from landslides and flooding across southwestern British Columbia last year is back to four lanes after temporary repairs at thr...
Dec 16, 2022
Record amount of opium found in Vancouver marine containers: border services
DELTA, B.C. - What started as a probe into some oddities with shipping pallets in Vancouver has ended with a record seizure of opium by the Canada Border Services Agency. The agency says its investiga...
Dec 16, 2022
B.C. government continues the pandemic wage top-up for care home workers
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is extending its COVID-19 wage top-ups for staff at seniors facilities, but the restriction that limited those workers to one work site has been lifted. The ...
Dec 16, 2022