Category Archives: British Columbia

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has approved an amended environment assessment certificate for block-caving at the Red Chris Mine, the same site where three workers were trapped last July. ...

VANCOUVER - The federal and British Columbia governments have announced billions of dollars in combined investments to spur housing development and update infrastructure, including building a new high...

OTTAWA - The immigration department says it's working "as quickly as possible" to resolve questions about citizenship by descent claims - even as some claimants say they did everything Ottawa asked th...

WEST KELOWNA - Emergency officials in West Kelowna, B.C., say an evacuation alert covering 742 homes has been lifted and the community is no longer under a local state of emergency. Central Okanagan E...

OTTAWA - A man convicted of arson and firing a gun at Indo-Canadian pop star AP Dhillon's British Columbia home in 2024 has been ordered deported from Canada. The Immigration and Refugee Board of Cana...

OTTAWA - Members of Parliament have wrapped up a spring sitting in the House of Commons that stretched over six months and saw the Liberals use their new majority powers to limit debate and push throu...

QUBEC - Montreal's business community is coming together to sweeten the pot in the city's bid to host a multinational defence bank, offering several floors in a planned downtown tower for the highly s...

PORT HARDY - Canada's Transportation Safety Board is urging seaplane pilots to be aware of risks when landing on calm and glassy water after a crash in British Columbia two years ago that killed one p...

VICTORIA - Police on Vancouver Island say they have arrested three young people in connection with a fire that destroyed a historic railcar. RCMP in Port Alberni say they made the arrests after a witn...

ATLIN - A First Nation in northwestern British Columbia has banished five people from its territory for three years. The Taku River Tlingit First Nation says in a statement on Facebook that its counci...