Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C.'s respiratory illness surge stabilizing after deaths of six kids: disease centre
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control says a deadly spike in acute respiratory illness is showing signs of stabilizing, after the flu-related deaths of at least six children and ...
Dec 09, 2022
Advocates seek funding for free contraception in next B.C. budget
VICTORIA - A B.C. advocacy group says it's going to push the government to fulfil a promise to cover the cost of prescription contraception, and for it to be included in the next provincial budget. Th...
Dec 08, 2022
Conroy brings rural perspective to B.C.'s bottom line, may expand speculation tax
VICTORIA - Katrine Conroy says she asked to keep her old job as British Columbia's forests minister, but Premier David Eby had other ideas and now she's in charge of managing the province's purse stri...
Dec 08, 2022
Safety board says maintenance problems, blade failure led to fatal crash in B.C.
RICHMOND, B.C. - The Transportation Safety Board says a fatal helicopter crash near Campbell River, B.C., three years ago was caused by a failure in the main rotor blades. The lone pilot, who was also...
Dec 08, 2022
Children's deaths from influenza up in B.C., with five mortalities last month
VICTORIA - At least five children died in British Columbia from influenza last month alone, a rise that comes as an early season of respiratory illnesses adds strain to the beleaguered health-care sys...
Dec 08, 2022
Katrina Chen exits B.C. cabinet, citing 'long-standing trauma,' gender-based violence
VICTORIA - Former British Columbia cabinet member Katrina Chen says she took herself out of contention for a new ministerial position in order to deal with "long-standing trauma" suffered as a result ...
Dec 07, 2022
Former Kelowna mayor charged with sexual assault
The former mayor of Kelowna has been charged with one count of sexual assault.The decision to lay the charge against Colin Basran came after an investigation by Kelowna RCMP and a review of the eviden...
Dec 07, 2022
Woman in Maple Ridge, B.C., injured in targeted shooting: police
MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. - RCMP say a woman is expected to survive after she was shot Monday in a targeted attack. They say in a news release the incident occurred that evening at a home on Dewdney Trunk Roa...
Dec 07, 2022
B.C. Premier David Eby to reveal new cabinet with health, safety, housing priorities
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby will appoint a new cabinet today in a move pundits are saying will be a blend of old and new faces, and could also start the countdown towards an early el...
Dec 07, 2022
B.C. court rules forestry company must pay $343,000 cost of 2016 wildfire suppression
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has upheld more than $343,000 in cost-recovery fines that were handed to a forestry company for starting a wildfire in 2016. A decision posted Monday...
Dec 06, 2022