Author Archives: Dave Barry
BC Hydro continuing work to restore electricity to Merritt area
MERRITT - BC Hydro says it is making progress returning electricity to the Merritt area and along the Highway 8 corridor to Spences Bridge, following last month's devastating rains and floods.In a new...
Dec 29, 2021
B.C. reports 1,785 new cases of COVID-19
VICTORIA - The Ministry of Health is reporting 1,785 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday. The numbers released today are considered to be preliminary figures. 269 new cases were reported within the Interior...
Dec 28, 2021
Canada Child Benefit still needed alongside national daycare system, minister says
OTTAWA - The federal minister in charge of child-care efforts says she still sees a need for the government's cornerstone children's benefit even in a Canada with a national daycare system. Families M...
Dec 28, 2021
B.C. extends state of emergency again that was put in place after November rain
VICTORIA - British Columbia is again extending its provincial state of emergency that's been in place after torrential rain caused severe flooding and mudslides last month. The province says in a news...
Dec 27, 2021
Thought to be abducted, RCMP say 3-year-old may be headed to B.C.
UPDATE (approx. 11:15 p.m. Dec. 27) - RCMP in Alberta say the father involved in a suspected parental abduction has turned himself in to law enforcement. Malin Nyhus did so at about 10:30 p.m. at the ...
Dec 27, 2021
Snowboarder goes missing on last run of day
UPDATE: This story has been updated at 3:30 P.M., Dec. 27. Click here for the update. KELOWNA, B.C. -- A search for a missing snowboarder is into its second day in freezing weather in the Big White sk...
Dec 27, 2021
Police shootings in 2021: Experts say number in Canada remains too high
Despite growing calls for changes in policing, the number of officer shootings in Canada remains too high, say criminology experts. On-duty police officers fired at 64 people in Canada between Jan. 1 ...
Dec 27, 2021
Trudeau calls Tutu's death a loss of one of the world's 'strongest moral voices'
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the world has lost one of the strongest moral voices with the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an unco...
Dec 26, 2021
Flood disaster takes bite out of B.C. economy, sends infrastructure wake-up call
VICTORIA - Economic growth in British Columbia will face erosion from recent floods and slides that crippled transportation links, but the resilience of government and industry to keep supply chains o...
Dec 26, 2021
Desmond Tutu, South African equality activist, dies at 90
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Desmond Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President C...
Dec 25, 2021
