Category Archives: British Columbia
Mountain sheep hunting now prohibited in the Okanagan
Hunters can no longer hunt the Okanagan Mountain Park mountain sheep.The government is closing the mountain sheep limited entry hunt (LEH) in the Okanagan.The decision comes as the past six surveys of...
May 19, 2022
B.C. First Nation to start new radar search near former Kamloops residential school
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The B.C. First Nation whose discovery of unmarked graves on the grounds of a former residential school sparked a national reckoning over Canada's treatment of Indigenous Peoples says ...
May 19, 2022
540 people in B.C. hospitalized with COVID-19, milder cases among vaccinated
VANCOUVER - The latest figures on COVID-19 show 540 people in British Columbia are currently hospitalized with the virus, 49 of them in critical care. The BC Centre for Disease Control says 59 people ...
May 19, 2022
Abbotsford commercial poultry flock latest to test positive for avian flu in B.C.
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Avian flu has been found in a commercial flock in the Fraser Valley, the same area where 80 per cent of British Columbia's poultry farms are located. B.C.'s Ministry of Agriculture ...
May 19, 2022
B.C. to end fossil fuel subsidies under new oil and gas royalty system
VICTORIA - British Columbia is changing its decades-old royalty system, the fees it charges companies to extract publicly owned oil and gas, in an effort to align with provincial climate goals. Premie...
May 19, 2022
Retirement plans improve after $2M lottery prize
A Prince George resident is looking forward to his "golden years" after winning a B.C. lottery.Colin Turick says he will be buying "the motorhome of his dreams" after matching all six numbers from the...
May 19, 2022
Number of British Columbians accessing EI dropped in March
British Columbia saw the number of employment insurance (EI) beneficiaries fall in March.Preliminary figures from Statistics Canada show there were 49,410 residents accessing regular EI benefits in Ma...
May 19, 2022
Former clerk of B.C. legislature guilty of fraud and breach of trust
The former clerk of the B.C. legislature has been found guilty of fraud and breach of trust, but a judge has found him not guilty of similar charges related to a $258,000 retirement fund and the use o...
May 19, 2022
UPDATE: Truck drivers taken to hospital after highway crash
The drivers of two transport trucks were taken to hospital, one via air ambulance helicopter, after a collision on the Trans Canada Highway west of Sicamous. BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) confi...
May 19, 2022
Crews working to restore power to parts of B.C.'s south coast hammered by high winds
VANCOUVER - Crews were making headway restoring electricity to thousands of customers across British Columbia's south coast after a fierce windstorm. Environment Canada says wind gusts of around 90 ki...
May 19, 2022
