British Columbia

B.C. forest company says rule of law must apply to ongoing protests at Fairy Creek

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for a British Columbia forest company says it wants the court to defend the rule of law at a protest site on southern Vancouver Island where more than 1,100 people have been arres...

Nov 15, 2021

VIDEO: Cedar residents evacuated as rains, rising tide contribute to area flooding

UPDATE: 2:11 p.m. State of local emergency and evacuation orders issued for areas near the Nanaimo River, with the Little Qualicum River and Englishman River in Oceanside also affected. A map of the i...

Alex Rawnsley Nov 15, 2021

Coldwater River breaches banks, City of Merritt issues flooding evacuation orders

MERRITT - The City of Merritt has issued evacuation orders for multiple properties, due to flooding from the Coldwater River. In a noticed posted to the municipality's website earlier this morning (No...

Nov 15, 2021

Rocks and mudslides close B.C. highways during heavy rain

VANCOUVER - Heavy rain across British Columbia has led to several closures on major highways connecting the Lower Mainland and the Interior region of the province. DriveBC says Highway 5 is closed bot...

Nov 14, 2021

Rosanne Casimir re-elected as chief of Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Members of the Tkemlps te Secwpemc First Nation near Kamloops, B.C., have re-elected Rosanne Casimir to another three-year term as chief. Casimir ran for the first time three years ag...

Nov 14, 2021

Vancouver police investigating after 9th pedestrian struck and killed this year

VANCOUVER - Police are investigating after a 59-year-old man was struck and killed in East Vancouver Saturday night. It is the city's ninth pedestrian death and the 18th collision-related fatality of ...

Nov 14, 2021

Review of street check policies arises out of B.C. police commissioner's report

VANCOUVER - A man's complaint about being stopped and asked if he was "Abdul" by two officers in New Westminster, B.C., has prompted a call for provincewide consistency on street checks from the city'...

Nov 13, 2021

B.C. reports 23 more deaths, 992 cases of COVID-19 over two days

VICTORIA - British Columbia has reported 992 new cases of COVID-19 diagnosed over the last two days and 23 more deaths, raising the death toll in the province to 2,257. The Health Ministry says 4,265 ...

Nov 12, 2021

B.C. milk board conditionally reinstates dairy farm licence after investigation

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - The British Columbia Milk Marketing Board says it has reinstated the dairy licence of a Fraser Valley farm with mandatory conditions after an investigation found violations of the c...

Nov 12, 2021

From chemical burns to a logging truck crash, RCMP describe events at Fairy Creek

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. - It's been an eventful week for Mounties and protesters in the Fairy Creek area of southern Vancouver Island that included an exploded can of bear spray and an RCMP crash involvin...

Nov 12, 2021