Category Archives: British Columbia

VICTORIA - Children's health in British Columbia will benefit from the provincial government's decision to tax sugary soda drinks, says the chairman of the Childhood Obesity Foundation. Dr. Tom W...

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver are investigating after a float plane was badly damaged in what appears to have been a botched theft. Const. Tanya Visintin says officers were called to the c...

VANCOUVER - The federal and British Columbia governments and two First Nations have signed a long-awaited agreement to protect the endangered southern mountain caribou herds. Federal Environment Minis...

VANCOUVER - Canada's minister in charge of Indigenous relations is making a bid to meet with Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs, but with the First Nation's leadership en route to meet supporter...

VANCOUVER - Lululemon Athletica Inc. says most of its stores in China have been closed since early February due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. The Vancouver-based company says that most of its 38 ...

VANCOUVER - Another case of the coronavirus has been diagnosed in British Columbia. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says a woman in her 30s has been diagnosed with COVID-19 after retur...

Vancouver philanthropist and former chancellor of the University of British Columbia Robert Lee has died at the age of 86. University of B.C. president Santo Ono called Lee an exemplary humanitarian w...

VICTORIA - Top income earners and pop drinkers were hit with new taxes in Tuesday's B.C. budget, which continues the government's focus on capital spending for schools, hospitals and transit...

VANCOUVER - A civilian police watchdog has released what Indigenous advocates in support of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs are calling an "explosive" letter condemning RCMP actions against In...

Acting in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en First Nation, supporters have blocked rail tracks on Neskonlith Band lands.Photos posted to social media show supporters on the tracks with signs expressing ...