Category Archives: British Columbia
Weeks before total insured losses from B.C. flooding are tallied: insurance bureau
VANCOUVER - The Insurance Bureau of Canada says it will be several weeks before the insured losses are added up for a severe weather and flooding event that deluged parts of southern B.C. A series of ...
Dec 19, 2025
Man sentenced to 12 years in 2017 killing of Abbotsford, B.C., woman
ABBOTSFORD - A man convicted in the 2017 killing of a 22-year-old woman from Abbotsford, B.C., has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says Gary Losch will...
Dec 18, 2025
Man charged with second-degree murder of his wife in Merritt, B.C.
MERRITT, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - A man has been charged with the second-degree murder of his wife in Merritt, B.C. A statement from the RCMP says paramedics and police were called to a house on Tue...
Dec 18, 2025
Suspect in killing of Vancouver cabbie is recaptured after skipping bail
VANCOUVER - Vancouver Police say a 26-year-old man has been re-arrested after disappearing while on bail for manslaughter in the killing of a taxi driver, who died more than a year after being attacke...
Dec 18, 2025
Suspect in B.C. extortion case is arrested and charged in California
LANGLEY - A man accused of being involved in an extortion investigation in British Columbia has been arrested and charged in California. RCMP say 30-year-old Jasmeet Singh is alleged to have made thre...
Dec 18, 2025
B.C. market to pay $750,000 over washroom videos that ended up on Russian porn site
VICTORIA - A Vancouver Island grocery store has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle a voyeurism class-action lawsuit brought by women who were secretly filmed in the bathroom by a former employee who upl...
Dec 18, 2025
B.C. backtracks on plan to cut pipeline tax values, saving ratepayers
VICTORIA - British Columbia's finance minister says there will be no changes in the tax assessments for pipelines running through communities after an outcry from a local government that said such a p...
Dec 18, 2025
B.C. Mountie ordered to resign or be fired after vulgar group chats
A British Columbia Mountie convicted of discreditable conduct for making sexist comments in group chats has been ordered to resign within 14 days, or he will be fired. RCMP adjudicator Louise Morel sa...
Dec 18, 2025
Musqueam chief says talks may be way out of Cowichan Aboriginal title dispute
VANCOUVER - The chief of the Musqueam Indian Band says the nation is ready to go to the Supreme Court of Canada as it fights the landmark Cowichan Tribes Aboriginal title ruling - but he also see anot...
Dec 18, 2025
Abbotsford, B.C., lifts all evacuation alerts as flood watch ends and waters recede
VANCOUVER - The City Of Abbotsford, B.C., has lifted all evacuation alerts related to flooding that inundated the Fraser Valley community last week. It says in an update late Thursday that it's moving...
Dec 18, 2025