Category Archives: British Columbia

PENTICTON - Two more Catholic churches in the South Okanagan have burned to the ground, raising the total to four in the last week.On Saturday, June 26, at 3:52 a.m., Princeton RCMP received a call th...

CAWSTON, B.C. - The chief of an Indigenous Nation in British Columbia's southern Interior says two more Catholic churches in the region have burned in fires early this morning. Lower Similkameen India...

NANAIMO - Rejuvenated efforts to solve a presumed homicide has resulted in new tips considered by police to be "credible and important" to their investigation. Lead investigator Cpl. Markus Muntener s...

PORT RENFREW, B.C. - Police arrested 18 people Friday as they continued to enforce an injunction against blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island. The RCMP say in a ...

PARKSVILLE - Relief is around the corner for residents of a French Creek neighbourhood burdened for decades by discoloured, odorous water.The Regional District of Nanaimo and Town of Qualicum Beach an...

VANCOUVER - The University of British Columbia's Faculty of Medicine is making a formal apology for its role in past and present harms to Indigenous Peoples and it is committing to expand its response...

NANAIMO - Island Health faced an uptick in COVID-19 cases.Five new cases were confirmed on Friday, June 22, after two days of only two new cases each day. The number of active cases rose to 29 from 25...

VICTORIA - British Columbia health officials are urging residents to prepare for high temperatures if they attend vaccination clinics this weekend. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Healt...

VICTORIA - Concerns about COVID-19 policies and services dominated complaints to the office of British Columbia's ombudsperson. Jay Chalke says in his annual report that of the more than 7,700 complai...

VANCOUVER - Jill St. Louis, a former Vancouver bureau chief at The Canadian Press who thrived in a fast-breaking news environment and was a friend to anything with four legs, has died after a battle w...