British Columbia

Foul play suspected after human remains identified as missing B.C. woman

PORT MOODY, B.C. - Police say a search for a missing person has turned into a homicide investigation after human remains found in Hope, B.C., were identified. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Tea...

May 01, 2021

Pacific National Exhibition at risk due to financial impacts of COVID-19 closures

VANCOUVER - The City of Vancouver says the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic threaten to shutter the long-running Pacific National Exhibition if the non-profit organization isn't able to secu...

Apr 30, 2021

Most people moved inside after Vancouver park encampment shut down: city

VANCOUVER - The City of Vancouver says a tent encampment in Strathcona Park has come to a close as the majority of people who had been sleeping there have now moved into government-organized accommoda...

Apr 30, 2021

Flight cancellations to India delay shipment of man's body from British Columbia

VANCOUVER - The body of a man that was supposed to be flown home to India from British Columbia just before the federal government stopped flights is now in limbo as his family scrambles to get the re...

Apr 30, 2021

COVID-19 modelling shows B.C. bending the curve of variant cases

VANCOUVER - A group of modelling experts says British Columbia is managing to suppress infections that have been driven by COVID-19 variants.The group of researchers from the University of British Col...

Apr 30, 2021

International effort thwarts $20,000 fraud aimed at Vancouver senior

VANCOUVER - An alert nephew and the co-ordinated efforts of police departments in Vancouver and England have saved an elderly woman from falling victim to an expensive scam. Vancouver police Const. Ta...

Apr 30, 2021

Minister to release enforcement details of COVID-19 travel ban in B.C.

VICTORIA - British Columbia's solicitor general is expected to announce more details about enforcement of a travel ban aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19. Mike Farnworth, who is also the public ...

Apr 30, 2021

Former B.C. minister Kash Heed next up to testify at money laundering public inquiry

VANCOUVER - A former British Columbia cabinet minister and police chief will be the latest high-profile politician to testify today at the public inquiry into money laundering. Kash Heed, who was B.C....

Apr 30, 2021

Old-growth forest activists to appeal B.C. court injunction against blockades

VANCOUVER - A group of activists maintaining blockades aimed at preventing old-growth trees from being logged have filed a notice to appeal a British Columbia Supreme Court decision that granted an in...

Apr 29, 2021

B.C. pop-up vaccine clinics not successful, face challenges, say health officials

VICTORIA - British Columbia health officials admitted efforts to administer pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinics in Metro Vancouver pandemic hot zones did not work properly. Provincial health officer Dr. B...

Apr 29, 2021