Category Archives: British Columbia
Museum plans, Falcon's return, Horgan's F-bomb highlights of B.C. legislature session
VICTORIA - British Columbia politicians head to their home ridings today after a four-month spring legislature session where health, affordability and the NDP government's plan to rebuild the provinci...
Jun 02, 2022
15 people charged with criminal contempt over pipeline protest, 10 others await fate
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - The British Columbia Prosecution Service says 15 people are being charged with criminal contempt of court following protests last fall over a natural gas pipeline being built nea...
Jun 01, 2022
Man arrested after random gas station attack in Vancouver, police say
VANCOUVER - Police say they're investigating an apparent random attack that left a 67-year-old man with serious stab wounds and others shaken after being chased with a machete. Vancouver police say it...
Jun 01, 2022
Electric vehicles in B.C. up 1,600% in six years
The British Columbia government is taking some of the credit for what officials say is a 1,600 per cent increase in the number of electric vehicles (EV) on B.C. roads the last six years.A government n...
Jun 01, 2022
Order of nuns that staffed B.C.'s residential schools to pass records to B.C. museum
VICTORIA - The order of nuns that staffed numerous residential schools and 10 hospitals in British Columbia over more than 160 years is handing over ownership of its archives to the Royal B.C. Museum....
Jun 01, 2022
B.C. to join small group of jurisdictions with decriminalization of hard drugs
VANCOUVER - British Columbia will soon join a handful of jurisdictions around the world where drug users aren't criminalized for possessing small amounts of some illicit drugs for personal use. Charge...
Jun 01, 2022
'Disturbing' case highlights inequity in disability benefit: B.C. ombudsperson
VICTORIA - British Columbia's ombudsperson has released a report on what he calls a "disturbing" case in which federal benefits intended for the family of a disabled Indigenous girl were instead kept ...
May 31, 2022
One person dead, 70 displaced after apartment fire in North Vancouver
VANCOUVER - Police say one person has died and 70 residents have been displaced following an apartment fire in North Vancouver. North Vancouver RCMP say in a news release that fire at Silverlynn Apart...
May 31, 2022
Minimum wage goes up June 1
British Columbia's latest minimum wage increase takes effect Wednesday, June 1, bumping the rate by 45 cents to $15.65 per hour.The province says the increase is tied to B.C.'s average annual inflatio...
May 31, 2022
'Dark web' drug-trafficking group arrested in Nanaimo, B.C., says RCMP
SURREY, B.C. - Police say three men from Vancouver Island have been arrested for allegedly running a "dark web" drug-trafficking ring in Nanaimo, B.C., following an undercover investigation that began...
May 31, 2022
