Category Archives: British Columbia
Fuel spill off Great Bear Rainforest offers few answers one year later: nation
VICTORIA - A rich marine harvest ground for a First Nation near British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest remains closed to shell fishing one year after a tug ran aground, spilling more than 100,000 li...
Oct 13, 2017
BC Assembly of First Nations elects new regional chief
KAMLOOPS - The BC Assembly of First Nations has elected Terry Teegee as its new regional chief at its 14th Annual General Meeting in Vancouver today. Teegee is the tribal chief of the Takla First Nati...
Oct 12, 2017
Troubling new overdose death stats released for BC, Kamloops
VICTORIA - The latest data from the BC Coroner’s Service shows Kamloops is on pace to exceed its overdose death total from last year. 32 people died in Kamloops due to illicit drug overdoses fro...
Oct 12, 2017
BCTF hoping for 'responsible use' of FSA data
KAMLOOPS - The president of the BC Teachers Federation is hoping the new NDP government will take steps to help protect the information of students in this province when it comes to Foundation Skills ...
Oct 12, 2017
B.C. house values continue to rise
VANCOUVER - The average price of a home in B-C continues to rise, according to the latest data from the B-C Real Estate Association. The association says just over 83-hundred residential units changed...
Oct 12, 2017
Elderly woman may have died in Penticton fire
PENTICTON - It’s not known if the resident of one of two houses that burned on Lakeshore Road in Penticton yesterday evening was able to get out before the building collapsed. The fire broke out...
Oct 12, 2017
Urgent need for injectable addiction treatment in B.C.: addictions minister
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's addictions minister has tasked health authorities to move quickly to scale up use of an injectable drug that could save the lives of chronic substance users who haven't ...
Oct 11, 2017
Feds win bid to reargue the facts used in landmark assisted-dying case
VANCOUVER - Severely ill Canadians who don't qualify for medical help in dying will suffer even longer while they wait to find out whether the federal government has violated their right to a medicall...
Oct 11, 2017
Canada, three Indigenous bands reach MOU on day scholar settlement process
KAMLOOPS - After years of litigation, three Canadian First Nations bands have reached a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ (MOU) with the Canadian government as they look to have day scholars r...
Oct 11, 2017
Open fires to be allowed again in Cariboo Fire Centre
KAMLOOPS - Decreased wildfire risk means Category 2 and Category 3 fires will once again be permitted in the Cariboo Fire Centre effective at noon Thursday, Oct.12. The lifting of the ban applies to a...
Oct 11, 2017
