ASHCROFT, B.C. - The B.C. Greens have added a group of new candidates to their provincial election slate, including a longtime environmental and social activist in Cariboo-Chilcotin.John Kidder will carry the Green banner in the riding. He is credited with being one of the founders of the provincial party in 1983, maki...

ASHCROFT, B.C. - Another veteran BC Liberal and then BC United MLA has made the decision to step away ahead of this October's provincial election. Jackie Tegart, who spent 11 years as the MLA for Fraser-Nicola, is retiring from public office and withdrawing her name from the ballot following the collapse of her party l...

KAMLOOPS - Veteran MLA Peter Milobar has announced he will run for the Conservative Party of B.C. in the October provincial election. Milobar made the announcement with family members by his side Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 3).Milobar will run in Kamloops Centre, where he had initially intended to run for the BC United pa...

ASHCROFT, B.C. - Veteran M.L.A. Jackie Tegart has announced she will not seek a fourth term in this fall's provincial election. She had been expected to represent the BC United Party in the election in the riding of Fraser-Nicola.Tegart was first elected in the 2013 provincial election as a member of the BC Liberal Par...

KAMLOOPS - With Todd Stone stepping down, the Kamloops-North Thompson riding has become a two-horse race, with only the BC Conservatives, with Ward Stamer, and BC NDP fielding candidates.Rookie politician and NDP candidate Maddi Genn is carrying the NDP banner in the race, and while like many others she was shocked by ...

KAMLOOPS - "Earlier this week, I made the difficult decision that the best thing that I could do right now, to support our coalition, is to take a step back and withdraw my candidacy in this next election," announced Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone Thursday (Aug 29) morning.After more than a decade of ...

KAMLOOPS - The governing BC New Democratic Party (NDP) has its candidate for the redrawn Kamloops-North Thompson riding. Maddi Genn, a human services professional and union activist, was unveiled as the NDP's candidate for Kamloops-North Thompson during a news conference at Valleyview Community Hall Wednesday (Aug. 21)...

KELOWNA, B.C. - A former leadership rival to BC United Leader Kevin Falcon is joining John Rustad's British Columbia Conservatives to run in Kelowna in the fall election. Gavin Dew was a candidate in the B.C. Liberal leadership race in 2022 that Falcon won, but he is now running in the Kelowna-Mission riding under the ...

KAMLOOPS - The BC United Party has unveiled arguably their biggest policy initiative ahead of this October's provincial election. Leader Kevin Falcon is promising that if his party is elected this fall, that they would eliminate provincial income tax for 60 per cent of British Columbians, resulting in an average of jus...

KAMLOOPS - It has been another shaky week for the bc united party. On Monday (July 29), BCU MLA Teresa Wat crossed the floor and will run for the BC Conservative party in this October's provincial election. Then on Wednesday (July 31), the party publicly admitted their name change has not gone perfectly to plan, reques...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's Opposition BC United says it wants to include the party's previous Liberal name on the fall election ballot after internal polling shows up to 30 per cent of people didn't know the party changed its name. BC United communications director Adam Wilson says the party is preparing to formally...

RICHMOND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Teresa Wat says quitting the Opposition BC United Party to join John Rustad's British Columbia Conservatives is the only path available for a free-enterprise coalition to defeat the New Democrats in the fall election. Wat, an 11-year veteran at the B.C. legislature and a strong mult...

RICHMOND, B.C. - BC United Leader Kevin Falcon is losing a third member of the legislature to the Conservative Party of British Columbia. BC United's director of communications Adam Wilson says in a statement that Teresa Wat, who represents the riding of Richmond North Centre, has indicated her intention to join John R...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's political landscape is undergoing a shake-up of seismic proportions a little over three months ahead of this fall's Oct. 19 election. Former political foes are forging once unimaginable unions, an established party faces annihilation at the ballot box and heavyweights from the ruling New D...

KAMLOOPS - The ballot in the newly shaped riding of Kamloops Centre is filling up, with the BC NDP acclaiming Kamal Grewal as the party's candidate, joining incumbent Peter Milobar of BC United, BC Conservative candidate Dennis Giesbrecht and the Green's Randy Sunderman.This will be Grewal's first foray into the politi...

KAMLOOPS - Ahead of the upcoming provincial election, B.C. Green Party leader Sonia Furstenau made a rare visit to Kamloops Thursday (June 6) in support of Kamloops Centre candidate Randy Sunderman. Furstenau joined Sunderman at a downtown coffee shop to hear from local residents as to what they see as the main politic...

KAMLOOPS - The exodus from the BC United party ahead of October's election grew larger on Monday (June 3) with Surrey MLA Elenore Sturko being the second United member to cross the floor to the Tories in three days. The move from Sturko followed Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Lorne Doerkson joining the BC Conservatives on Frida...

KAMLOOPS - An incumbent BC United MLA has crossed the floor to the BC Conservatives, just months before British Columbians head to the polls this October. Lorne Doerkson, the MLA for the Cariboo-Chilcotin riding, which after recent electoral boundary changes includes the Tobiano and Savona areas just west of Kamloops c...

VICTORIA - The caucus chair for the BC United party is defecting to the BC Conservatives, adding to the woes of the province's official opposition.Lorne Doerkson, who represents Cariboo-Chilcotin, and BC Conservative Leader John Rustad announced the move that increases the party's numbers in the legislature to three.Th...

KAMLOOPS - When British Columbians head to the polls in October, there will be two right-of-centre political parties vying for their vote. They will choose between current official opposition and former BC Liberals - now rebranded as BC United under leader Kevin Falcon - and the upstart BC Conservative party led by for...

KAMLOOPS - John Rustad, the leader of the BC Conservative Party, was not happy that BC United's Kevin Falcon was dictating terms on a non-compete agreement and that led him to shut down talks last week."And here we are today with the offer from them - once again they are dictating terms. They aren't actually sitti...

KAMLOOPS - Conservative Party of BC Leader John Rustad was in Kamloops over the weekend, as he and his party make preparations for an expected provincial election that many are suggesting will take place in the spring of 2024."David Eby and the NDP are really jamming through all kinds of legislation. A lot of it, ...

MERRITT, B.C. - A familiar face will be running again for the B.C. Green Party in the newly-redrawn Fraser-Nicola riding - which will encompass the communities of Merritt, Logan Lake, Lytton, Boston Bar and Hope. For a second provincial election, Jonah Timms will run for the party. BC United incumbent Jackie Tegart has...

VICTORIA - With the final count complete in a dozen too-close-to call ridings, the BC NDP have won a large majority of 57 seats.The BC Liberals captured 28 seats, while in a surprise turnaround, the BC Greens were reduced to two.Sunday's final count means the NDP have one the second-best electoral finish of any B.C. pa...

VERNON, B.C. - It's now official.NDP candidate Harwinder Sandhu is the new MLA for Vernon-Monashee, the first New Democrat to win the riding in 36 years.According to the results posted at 12:40 p.m. Sunday (Nov. 8), Sandhu is 424 votes ahead of three term Liberal incumbent Eric Foster.Going into the final count, Sandhu...

VICTORIA - Elections B.C. has wrapped up its mail-in ballot counting in two closely-contested Kamloops-area ridings after the October 24 provincial election - and both will remain B.C. Liberal.In Kamloops-North Thompson, B.C. Liberal incumbent Peter Milobar's election night margin over NDP challenger Sadie Hunter was 7...

KAMLOOPS - Elections B.C. began counting mail-in and absentee ballots Friday (Nov. 6), meaning voters in a pair of Kamloops-area ridings will get a better idea of who their MLAs will be.Both Kamloops-North Thompson and Fraser-Nicola saw election night margins of less than 1,000 votes for their B.C. Liberal incumbents.A...

KAMLOOPS - Todd Stone is cleaning up his B.C. Liberal campaign office on Monday (Oct. 26), two days after cleaning up in the Kamloops-South Thompson riding once again. Stone defeated the NDP's Anna Thomas by 4,000 votes to win a third term, but will be in opposition for a second straight stint. His top priority is ensu...