Category Archives: British Columbia
Healthcare workers slammed by COVID
The toll that COVID-19 has had on B.C.'s health care workers was made obvious Monday as officials released the latest epidemiological modelling.Dr. Bonnie Henry, the provincial health officer, says 42...
May 04, 2020
Elephant Hill wildfire determined to be caused by smoking materials
ASHCROFT - The BC Wildfire Service has now determined the cause of the Elephant Hill wildfire in 2017. Investigators and cause specialists have determined that the most likely cause of the fire was sm...
May 04, 2020
Metro Vancouver home sales down 39.4 per cent in April to near 40-year low
VANCOUVER - The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says home sales dropped by 39.4 per cent in April from a year earlier to hit an almost four-decade low. The board says there were a total of...
May 04, 2020
No charges to be laid in B.C.'s 2017 Elephant Hill wildfire: Wildfire Service
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Wildfire Service has officially released the cause of a 2017 blaze that eventually charred a huge area of trees and bush in the southern Interior&n...
May 04, 2020
Michael J. Fox Foundation podcast tackles COVID-19 pandemic challenges
VANCOUVER - Michael J. Fox's research foundation is launching a podcast to help people with Parkinson's disease navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research s...
May 04, 2020
B.C. health officials to release new COVID-19 modelling figures today
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is expected to release new modelling data for COVID-19 today, as the province also prepares to begin reopening the economy. Dr. Bonnie Henry said S...
May 04, 2020
Provinces must give emotional support to returning students: education advocates
VANCOUVER - Bored and isolated students are spending too many hours online and some have started using more substances, but all students will need extra emotional support ...
May 04, 2020
Teens set off flare in B.C. store in 'reckless' act, traumatize clerk: RCMP
NANAIMO, B.C. - The RCMP are accusing two teenagers of creating mayhem in a convenience store in Nanaimo, B.C., after shoplifting and then setting off a flare indoors on their way out. Mount...
May 03, 2020
B.C. rally calls for safe release of prisoners
A justice advocacy group says it wants prisoners at a federal institution in British Columbia ravaged by a COVID-19 outbreak to know there are people in the community fighting for their safety. Meenak...
Corey Fischer May 03, 2020
RCMP seeking witnesses to fatal crash
RCMP in the Okanagan are hoping witnesses will come forward, after a fatal vehicle incident on Highway 97 in Peachland Friday evening. West Kelowna RCMP, and the RCMP's Central Okanagan Traffic Servic...
Corey Fischer May 03, 2020

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