British Columbia

Two new COVID-19 cases in Island Health

NANAIMO - Only a relatively low number of new COVID-19 cases in Island Health. The health authority confirmed the two new on Wednesday, June 23 brought the central Island total to 2,475, which is slig...

Jun 23, 2021

Cheaper, more potent cannabis found in B.C. government-run stores: study

VANCOUVER - The price of cannabis at government-run stores in British Columbia declined while potency rose between 2019 and 2020, says a new report that has a researcher raising questions about what i...

Jun 23, 2021

Order of Catholic nuns agrees to enhance access to residential school records

VICTORIA - An order of Catholic nuns whose members taught at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia says it has reached an agreement to improve access to its private archival recor...

Jun 23, 2021

Sisters of St. Ann, Royal B.C. Museum sign agreement on enhanced residential school record-sharing.

VICTORIA - The Catholic order that staffed the Kamloops Indian Residential School has reached an agreement with the Royal B.C. Museum (RBCM) on enhanced record-sharing.The Memorandum of Understanding ...

Jun 23, 2021

Improved fishway, lower river flow raises salmon migration hopes at B.C. rock slide

VANCOUVER - Fisheries officials say they expect thousands of migrating salmon will be able to pass through an area where a massive rock slide has impeded them on British Columbia's Fraser River after ...

Jun 23, 2021

24-hour bike ride boosts Loaves & Fishes summer fundraiser

NANAIMO - An annual fundraiser for Nanaimo's food bank is set to have its most successful year yet. Peter Sinclair, executive director of Loaves & Fishes Community Food Bank said the annual Food4S...

Jun 23, 2021

Parents of teen killed at B.C. school share grief, anger at sentencing hearing

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - The father of a 13-year-old girl who was murdered at a high school in Abbotsford, B.C., says he doubts the killer will receive a fit sentence for the damage caused to his famil...

Jun 23, 2021

Climate activists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis join faculty at University of B.C.

VANCOUVER - The University of British Columbia says climate activists and journalists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis are joining its faculty in the department of geography. A statement from the university ...

Jun 23, 2021

Lifeline volunteers honoured by province

VICTORIA - Five public safety lifeline volunteers are being recognized for their exceptional contributions to emergency and disaster response throughout the province.The award winners are among thousa...

Jun 23, 2021

More than 1 million second COVID-19 doses given in B.C., 6 new in Island Health

NANAIMO - B.C. public health claims more than one million residents are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry on Tuesday, June 22 said of the roughly 4.5 mi...

Jun 22, 2021