British Columbia

New B.C. hydrogen office to help investment and emissions reduction: Horgan

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government is creating a new office to help streamline decisions on hydrogen projects and proposals. Premier John Horgan says the BC Hydrogen Office will also help the...

Mar 31, 2022

‘Hope for change:’ First Nations delegates meet with Pope Francis

Chief Gerald Antoine says he hopes a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican can forge the beginning of an important relationship."Despite our collective grief and pain, there comes hope for change,"...

Mar 31, 2022

B.C. says focus on more than just low fees for universal child-care programs

VICTORIA - It was almost 40 years ago that Sharon Gregson says she became an advocate for child care out of necessity. The spokeswoman for $10-a-day child care at the Coalition of Child Care Advocates...

Mar 31, 2022

B.C. landslide caused 100-metre high tsunami, set off earthquake scale: study

VANCOUVER - A retreating glacier in a remote British Columbia valley caused a massive landslide that crested a 100-metre tall tsunami, wiped out kilometres of salmon habitat and was detected as far aw...

Mar 30, 2022

B.C.'s UN Indigenous rights plan commits to changing history through actions

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has released a five-year action plan towards implementing its law on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The government's rep...

Mar 30, 2022

Permanent repairs on Lantzville sinkhole scheduled for summer months

NANAIMO - Designs are being finalized for permanent repairs to a sinkhole on Hwy. 19.After an atmospheric river dumped a month's worth of rain on the region over the course of a couple of days, a sink...

Mar 30, 2022

B.C. ends quarantine program for temporary foreign workers, self-isolation continues

VICTORIA - The British Columbia Agriculture Ministry says it is ending the COVID-19 quarantine program for temporary foreign workers but will keep a different program for another year to support self-...

Mar 30, 2022

First Nations need long-term funding for residential school investigations: chief

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The chief of a First Nation that's searching for unmarked graves at a former residential school in British Columbia says they're looking for long-term funding as they prepare for...

Mar 30, 2022

Trudeau visits Vancouver school, Ukrainian bakery ahead of Liberal fundraiser

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau jokingly warned students at a Vancouver school Tuesday that they need to be nice to their substitute teachers because they'll never know when those former tea...

Mar 29, 2022

B.C. records one death from COVID-19; sees slight drop in hospitalizations

VICTORIA - The number of people in hospital due to COVID-19 has dropped slightly in British Columbia. The Health Ministry says in a statement Tuesday that there were 273 people in hospital and 46 in i...

Mar 29, 2022