Category Archives: British Columbia
Victoria airport closes to commercial flights as RCMP respond to 'threat'
NORTH SAANICH, B.C. - The Victoria International Airport says it is closing to commercial flights as the RCMP respond to a call for service. A statement posted on the airport's website Tuesday afterno...
May 24, 2022
Search and rescue crews recover body after man drowns near Nanaimo, B.C.
NANAIMO, B.C. - RCMP in British Columbia say a body has been recovered by emergency crews in a lake near Nanaimo. Mounties say in a statement they believe the man drowned while swimming in Long Lake t...
May 24, 2022
Police-involved shooting in Surrey leaves woman injured: B.C. RCMP
SURREY, B.C. - RCMP in British Columbia say a woman was shot and injured during a confrontation with police in Surrey this afternoon. Mounties say they responded to reports of a woman with a weapon ar...
May 24, 2022
B.C. partners with Netherlands to support food security
A major partnership agreement between British Columbia and the Netherlands has been signed to better support food security in the province.The partnership will help develop agricultural technologies (...
May 24, 2022
'They have a right to be angry': Trudeau says residential school legacy ongoing
VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it's been a difficult year for many since the discovery of unmarked graves at residential schools and those expressing anger are justified in doing so. T...
May 24, 2022
Man finds out he won $1M lottery prize while checking emails
Imagine looking through your emails and finding out you have won $1-million -- and it wasn't a hoax.That was the case for Greg Gauthier and his wife who were notified by email that Gauthier won that a...
May 24, 2022
B.C.'s average rent up 2.7 per cent in April
British Columbia continued to have the highest average rental rates in Canada in April.The rental report from Rentals.ca shows that in April, B.C.'s average rate for all property types was $2,347 a mo...
May 24, 2022
UPDATE: Band plans to rebuild fire-damaged Quaaout Lodge
Fire has destroyed part of an Indigenous owned and operated lodge in the southern Interior but the Little Shuswap Lake Band says it is planning to rebuild. A statement from the band's chief, James Tom...
May 24, 2022
Farms in B.C. and Alberta latest to have confirmed outbreaks of avian influenza
VANCOUVER - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed two more outbreaks of avian influenza in small flocks - one in southern British Columbia and the other in southeastern Alberta. A statemen...
May 24, 2022
Sunrise ceremony opens daylong Kamloops memorial to mark graves detection anniversary
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A memorial to mark the one-year anniversary of the announcement of the detection of an unmarked burial site at the former residential school at Kamloops, B.C. starts early Monday with...
May 23, 2022
