KAMLOOPS - Kamloops MLAs-elect Peter Milobar and Ward Stamer will be headed to Victoria as members of the opposition for the next legislative session, possibly before Christmas. "The premier's indicating that he would like to be back in [session] relatively soon," said Milobar, Kamloops Centre MLA-elect. &quo...

VERNON, B.C. - The Conservative Party of B.C. candidate for the Vernon-Lumby riding believes his name could still be on the ballot in the future.Dennis Giesbrecht, the local Conservative candidate, lost to the NDP's Harwinder Sandhu in the 2024 Provincial General Election. Sandhu earned 11,836, votes in the local ridin...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby has scheduled a meeting with the B.C. Greens as he prepares to form government, a day after securing the barest of majorities in a legislature where every vote will count. Eby also suggests he's open to working with opposition-in-waiting B.C. Conservatives - so long as they...

VICTORIA - The NDP appears to have won enough seats to form government in British Columbia, however it is unclear whether it will be a majority or minority.The Canadian Press is projecting that Premier David Eby's NDP has won at least 46 seats, with two still too close to call in the ongoing count of absentee ballots.T...

KAMLOOPS - Recently-elected Kamloops MLA Peter Milobar took to social media on Saturday (Oct. 26) morning to denounce racist slurs made by fellow party member Marina Sapozhnikov, the B.C. Conservatives' candidate in Juan de Fuca-Malahat. Milobar said her remarks are reprehensible and fill him with outrage and sadness, ...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops-North Thompson MLA-elect Ward Stamer has tendered his resignation as mayor of the District of Barriere.The resignation letter posted to the district's website is dated Monday (Oct. 21).Stamer, running under the BC Conservative banner, was the runaway winner in Saturday's provincial election for the ...

VANCOUVER - John Rustad has taken to social media to describe his origin story as leader of British Columbia's Conservative Party, which he took from obscurity to the brink of power in Saturday's provincial election. The Conservatives went from taking less than two per cent of the vote in 2020 to being elected or leadi...

KAMLOOPS - The vast majority of the Interior of British Columbia elected Conservative candidates Saturday (Oct. 19), with one notable exception. Early-campaign Kamloops Centre candidate Dennis Giesbrecht was defeated by the NDP candidate in Vernon-Lumby after moving aside to allow Peter Milobar to run in Kamloops.The C...

KAMLOOPS - As the dust begins to settle from what is being called the closest election in British Columbia's history, uncertainty still remains about who will seize control of the province. As we currently stand, the NDP are clinging to a minority government, surpassing the upstart BC Conservatives by one seat, with th...

British Columbians went to the polls Saturday, but now face a week or more before knowing the result, and whether the NDP's David Eby will keep his job as premier or if B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad will take charge, or if there might be a new election. Here's how events could play out: WHAT'S THE CURRENT SITUAT...

VANCOUVER - The final results of British Columbia's weekend election won't be known until at least next week. Elections BC says official recounts are being held in two tight ridings where the difference between the New Democrat and B.C. Conservatives candidates is less than 100 votes. The NDP candidates hold slim leads...

KAMLOOPS - Terry Lake represented Kamloops-North Thompson for eight years and served in several cabinet posts, including the health and environment ministries.He spoke with CFJC's James Peters about the surprises and implications of the 2024 provincial vote.

The outcome of British Columbia's election was unclear after a close race between the NDP and the B.C. Conservatives, with the Greens poised to play a role in a potential minority government. Here's what the party leaders said on Saturday's election night. "We don't know what the final count is going to be in the ...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia is waking to a reshaped political landscape but no clear winner of a provincial election marked by the rise of the B.C. Conservatives from the political fringe to centre stage. Neither the Conservatives, led by John Rustad, nor the incumbent NDP of Premier David Eby reached the 47 seats nee...

KAMLOOPS - Despite losing the race in both Kamloops ridings, the NDP candidates and their supporters chose to celebrate."I'm feeling - I'm still feeling the win," Kamloops Centre candidate Kamal Grewal told CFJC Today. "Regardless, we may not have won the seat. But the way I look at it, 9,600 people plac...

KAMLOOPS - It was an early celebration and then a whole lot of 'wait and see' for the two newly-elected Kamloops MLAs. While no stranger to campaigns, this one was far different for the Kamloops Centre victor after switching parties just a few weeks ago."It's been a pretty tumultuous six or seven weeks here, espec...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Cariboo-Chilcotin will be represented by a familiar face in the next legislative assembly. The riding was never close as the reporting came in Saturday night (Oct. 19). Incumbent Conservative Lorne Doerkson is going back to Victoria with 70 per cent support. His only challenger was Williams Lake c...

KAMLOOPS - Barriere mayor Ward Stamer is an MLA-elect. Stamer, running for the Conservatives, got a comfortable victory Saturday (Oct. 19) over the NDP's Maddi Genn, garnering 60 per cent of the ballots to Genn's 33 per cent.Green candidate Tristan Cavers garnered about eight per cent of the ballots cast.Stamer, who we...

KAMLOOPS - Conservative Peter Milobar - who held Kamloops-North Thompson for BC United when the writ dropped - will return to Victoria to represent Kamloops Centre. During the general election Saturday (Oct. 19), Milobar took about 49 per cent of the vote, with NDP challenger Kamal Grewal getting about 41 per cent.Comi...

SALMON ARM, B.C. - The newly-drawn riding of Salmon Arm-Shuswap will have a new MLA.David Williams was elected Saturday (Oct. 19) with a comfortable margin of 52 per cent of the votes - well ahead of the NDP's Sylvia Lindgren at 30 per cent. Independent Greg McCune, who was the BC United candidate before that party's c...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia Premier and NDP Leader David Eby has won re-election in the riding of Vancouver-Point Grey. Eby was first elected to the riding in 2013, when he defeated then-premier and former B.C. Liberal leader Christy Clark. He is a former executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association who ...

VICTORIA - Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau has lost her seat in the legislature after changing ridings to Victoria-Beacon Hill. Furstenau lost to Grace Lore, the minister of children and family development in the previous NDP government. The Green leader was first elected 2017, when her party played a key roll in he...

VANDERHOOF, B.C. - British Columbia Conservative Leader John Rustad has been re-elected in his riding of Nechako Lakes. Rustad was kicked out of the Opposition BC United Party for his support on social media of an outspoken climate change critic in 2022, and last year was acclaimed as the B.C. Conservative leader. Buoy...

KAMLOOPS - 8:00 p.m. Pacific time has passed and the polls have closed in the B.C. election.Now, the candidates await the results.Here in Kamloops, the B.C. Conservatives have gathered at Match Eatery - including candidates Peter Milobar and Ward Stamer.Their NDP opponents - Maddi Genn and Kamal Grewal - are at Red Bea...

British Columbians have gone to the polls on an election day marked by torrential rain and high winds across much of the province. Here's the latest on the race to form the next provincial government between the New Democrats, led by David Eby, and John Rustad's B.C. Conservatives, with Green Leader Sonia Furstenau hop...

British Columbia voters are heading to the polls, and political podcast co-host Mike McDonald says he is watching five ridings as bellwethers. Here are the five ridings he's watching as indicators of whether the NDP or the B.C. Conservatives will form government, and why: Nanaimo-Lantzville McDonald says one of the key...

VANCOUVER - The choice facing British Columbians in the provincial election today would have been unthinkable just a few months ago. The B.C. Conservatives, whose party won less than two per cent of the vote last election, stand on the brink of forming government or, at least, becoming the official Opposition, with Lea...

KAMLOOPS - If Saturday's vote could be boiled down to a single issue election, that issue would likely be public safety. From open drug and alcohol use, to small businesses facing theft and vandalism, the issues around crime and safety are forefront on almost everyone's minds as they head to the polls to cast their bal...