Category Archives: British Columbia
Salmon Arm Mounties respond to two Trans Canada crashes
SORRENTO, B.C. - Salmon Arm RCMP responded to a pair of collisions yesterday. The first was a single vehicle crash in the 2000 block of the Trans Canada Highway in the Blind Bay/Sorrento area at aroun...
Oct 06, 2017
B.C. experiments with ‘Lego block’ housing in fight against homelessness
VANCOUVER - Stack them up. Take them down. Move them around. Repeat. What could easily pass as a description of the children's toy Lego could also be a portrait of British Columbia's latest tool in th...
Oct 05, 2017
Children’s representative calls for youth mental health system in B.C.
VICTORIA - A 17-year-old boy who took his own life on the grounds of a children's hospital in Vancouver didn't get the mental health treatment he needed from the time he was two years old, says Britis...
Oct 05, 2017
Expert calls on Liberals, Tories, NDP to join forces during overdose crisis
VANCOUVER - Canada's political leaders must take bold action by joining forces to decriminalize illicit drugs and save lives in the midst of an unprecedented overdose crisis, a leading drug-policy exp...
Oct 05, 2017
AgriRecovery fund open to ranchers and farmers
KAMLOOPS - Good news for ranchers and farmers in British Columbia as they can now access the $20 million 2017 Canada-British Columbia Wildfires Recovery Initiative. The money has been made available t...
Oct 05, 2017
Province takes steps to 'modernize democracy'
KAMLOOPS - B.C.’s NDP government has taken steps it argues will “modernize democracy.” It did so by introducing two pieces of legislation Wednesday, the first a bill to allow for a r...
Oct 04, 2017
2017 wildfire season most expensive in recent memory
KAMLOOPS - 2017 proved to be the most expensive wildfire season in recent memory. According to BC Wildfire Service’s Ryan Turcot, provincial suppression costs to date amount to $552 million. Tha...
Oct 04, 2017
Langley, B.C., boy hurt when vehicle chase between citizens ends in crash
LANGLEY, B.C. - A 12-year-old boy from Langley, B.C., has been seriously hurt after being run down by a vehicle involved in a chase through a residential area of the Metro Vancouver community. RCMP Cp...
Oct 04, 2017
Cloverdale pastor and wife are facing multiple sexual assault charges
SURREY - A Cloverdale pastor and his wife are facing numerous charges involving sexual assault, sexual touching and threats over a two year period. Surrey RCMP said on May 17 it received several alleg...
Oct 04, 2017
Ashcroft RCMP seek potentially violent man
ASHCROFT, B.C. - RCMP in Ashcroft are looking for a local man wanted on several outstanding warrants. 27 year old Bradley Joseph Lawrence has warrants out in his name for assault, uttering threats, br...
Oct 04, 2017
