Category Archives: British Columbia
RCMP say no survivors in plane crash near Nanaimo, B.C.
NANAIMO - RCMP say no one has survived a plane crash on Vancouver Island near Nanaimo, B.C. Mounties say in a news release that the crash was reported at around three this morning in the area near Twi...
Nov 27, 2025
Vancouver police cleared in fatal shooting of youth who had air pistol
SURREY - British Columbia's independent police watchdog agency has cleared Vancouver police officers of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a youth in 2023. The Independent Investigations Office says ...
Nov 27, 2025
Drax to shut B.C. wood pellet plant by year's end, says not 'commercially viable'
WILLIAMS LAKE - A company operating a wood pellet plant in the British Columbia Interior says the facility will be shuttered by the end of the year due to a lack of available fibre. U.K.-based Drax, w...
Nov 27, 2025
Pipeline agreement includes new target of 75 per cent cut in methane emissions
OTTAWA - An agreement between Ottawa and Alberta that could clear the path for a new oil pipeline to the Pacific will also require a 75 per cent cut in methane emissions over the next decade, a source...
Nov 27, 2025
B.C. drug club co-founder surprised by lack of 'urgency' from Health Canada on crisis
VANCOUVER - A co-founder of Vancouver's Drug User Liberation Front said he was surprised by Health Canada's lack of "urgency" about the deadly toxic drug crisis, and the absence of a pharmaceutical-gr...
Nov 26, 2025
No way 'to do business,' B.C. Energy Minister Dix says of Alberta's pipeline plans
VICTORIA - British Columbia's energy minister says political talk of a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific isn't the way to do business and leaks through the media should not be considered the govern...
Nov 26, 2025
Former Surrey, B.C., employee charged with fraud in a $2.5M loss for city: police
SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., say a former municipal employee has been charged with fraud leading to an estimated loss of $2.5 million for the city. The Surrey Police Service says the RCMP's econom...
Nov 26, 2025
B.C. man charged with money laundering after illegal gaming house bust
SURREY - A man from Esquimalt, B.C., is facing money laundering charges after an investigation by police uncovered an alleged illegal gaming house on Vancouver Island. The Combined Forces Special Enfo...
Nov 26, 2025
Hong Kong Canadians reeling after deadly highrise inferno
VANCOUVER - Canadians with roots in Hong Kong have been watching in horror at news of the fire that tore through seven highrise towers in the Chinese special administrative region, leaving dozens dead...
Nov 26, 2025
Review of B.C.'s emissions strategy says LNG push threatens to wipe out cuts
VICTORIA - A report commissioned by British Columbia's government says its pursuit of new natural gas projects "threatens to set back progress" in reducing greenhouse emissions and the province is exp...
Nov 26, 2025
