Category Archives: British Columbia
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
Latest Canfor restructuring affects nearly 500 mill workers in northern B.C.
VANCOUVER - Canfor Corporation says as many as 157 employees face layoffs in one northern British Columbia town, but the company says it's too early to estimate job losses in a second community as the...
Jan 26, 2023
Sawmill permanently closing as Canfor restructures B.C. operations
VANCOUVER - Canfor Corporation says it is "restructuring" its operations in British Columbia, permanently closing one sawmill and shuttering another for an extended period amid plans to build a new wo...
Jan 25, 2023
Coastal GasLink fined again for sediment, erosion in pipeline work
VICTORIA - The company that is building a natural gas pipeline across northern British Columbia has been fined for a third time as a result of failure to comply with the requirements of its environmen...
Jan 25, 2023
Ground-penetrating radar finds 66 new reflections at St. Joseph's Mission Residential School in Williams Lake
Editor's Note: This story contains details regarding victims of Canada's Residential Schools. Discretion is advised and support services are outlined at the bottom of this story.WILLIAMS LAKE - Exactl...
Jan 25, 2023