Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - Food banks and non-profit organizations that help the most vulnerable say they need a helping hand to get through the novel coronavirus pandemic. Non-profit organizations and charities say...

Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth has declared a provincial state of emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the globe. This follows yesterday's declaration by provincial senior healt...

The Province of B.C. has declared a Public Health Emergency due to the increasing numbers of those with the COVID-19 coronavirus.Clubs and bars have been ordered to close.Dr. Bonnie Henry said there w...

School students in B.C. will have an extended Spring Break.Education Minister Rob Fleming says schools will stay closed until further notice due to the pandemic. He says all students will receive a fi...

VANCOUVER - The aunt of three-year-old Alan Kurdi says she has mixed feelings after three people were sentenced in the human smuggling case that resulted in the deaths of ...

The Chief Public Health officer of Canada has outlined who should be getting tested for COVID-19.Dr. Teresa Tam says 34,000 Canadians have been tested so far.As far as who needs to be tested, she says...

Due to the developing COVID-19 situation, the Supreme Court of British Columbia has modified its operations. In a release, the Supreme Court outlined how normal proceedings will be taking place given ...

VANCOUVER - When the overdose crisis struck British Columbia four years ago, Dave Apsey was among a small group of people in a unique position to respond. As a drug user who helped open a needle excha...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's call for recently retired doctors to return to work if the COVID-19 pandemic worsens is spurring other provinces to make similar emergency preparations, says the&nb...

VANCOUVER - Canada's first death from the novel coronavirus has highlighted the urgent and often ignored need for better staffing at long-term care facilities where elderly residents are especial...