Category Archives: British Columbia
RCMP seek suspect in Williams Lake nightclub shooting
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - RCMP in Williams Lake have released a pair of surveillance photos as they try to identify a shooting suspect.According an RCMP news release, the incident happened on April 25. Of...
Jun 21, 2019 Image Credit: RCMP handout
B.C. home support for seniors is unaffordable, which boosts care costs: advocate
VICTORIA - Most seniors in British Columbia can't afford the public home support system to keep them in their own homes for as long as possible, says a report from the province's advoca...
Jun 21, 2019
Surrey RCMP seek public help in locating three-year-old and parents
SURREY, B.C. - RCMP in Surrey, B.C., want to find a three-year-old child who has not been seen since Tuesday. Sgt. Shawn Baly says Brycein Toane was last seen in Surrey's Bridgeview neighbourhood...
Jun 21, 2019
Purchase of watershed in southeast B.C., protects land, species at risk
NELSON, B.C. - A southeastern British Columbia watershed including a rare inland temperate rainforest has been purchased by the Nature Conservancy of Canada, protecting it from development. The n...
Jun 21, 2019
Family doctor tells B.C. inquest teens have right to privacy about their health
VICTORIA - The family doctor who delivered Elliot Eurchuk as a baby and saw him as a patient until 18 months before his death told a British Columbia's coroner's inquest that teens have the right...
Jun 20, 2019
B.C. imposes interim moratorium on resource development to protect caribou
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government plans to sign a caribou protection strategy while it imposes an interim moratorium on new resource development in areas where the animals are stru...
Jun 20, 2019
Scorpion gives birth after travelling to Canada in Vancouver woman's luggage
VICTORIA - A scorpion that turned up in a Vancouver resident's home last month following a recent trip to Cuba has now given birth. Staff at the Victoria Bug Zoo confirm in an online post that the sco...
Jun 19, 2019
Penticton senior dies after mobile home park fire
PENTICTON, B.C. - A woman who was pulled from a burning mobile home in Penticton three weeks ago has died. The fire at Riva Ridge mobile home park damaged two mobile homes on May 29. On Wednesday, the...
Jun 19, 2019 Image Credit: Kelly Hayes / Global Okanagan
B.C. mom tells inquest of son's descent into drugs, finds him 'gone' in bedroom
VICTORIA - Rachel Staples let out the dog, started brewing coffee and then immediately felt panic as she walked up to her son's room on April 20 last year, she told a coroner's inquest Monda...
Jun 19, 2019
Heavy police presence results in Clearwater takedown
BLUE RIVER, B.C. - A mischief call in Blue River Tuesday (June 18) led police to a man with outstanding warrants. RCMP Spokesperson Cpl. Madonna Saunderson says when officers stopped a vehicle associa...
Jun 19, 2019
