Category Archives: British Columbia
Senate report urges more support, schools for French education in B.C.
VICTORIA - British Columbia needs to build more French-only schools and increase access to French language education to support the province's Francophone community and prevent children from losing th...
Jun 01, 2017
Experts plumb depths of quake-causing cracks on the Pacific sea floor
VANCOUVER - New research focused off the west coast of North America is giving seismologists a better understanding of what one scientist describes as "the single greatest geophysical hazard to the co...
Jun 01, 2017
Starbucks to serve alcohol in Vancouver in push to attract evening customers
VANCOUVER - Starbucks Canada will begin serving beer and wine Thursday in Vancouver, a year after launching its bar menu at a few locations in Toronto and Ottawa. It's part of a push by the coffee gia...
Jun 01, 2017
Vancouver Island man survives lightning strike, now hopes for super powers
VICTORIA - A propane delivery driver on Vancouver Island may be the luckiest man in British Columbia, but he says he's not a super hero - yet. Twenty-four-year-old Sean Ramsay was filling propane tank...
Jun 01, 2017
An NDP minority government in B.C. may have to water down its ambitions: experts
VANCOUVER - An NDP minority government in British Columbia would be hard pressed to make good on all the plans it has laid out in an agreement with the Green party, experts say. Duane Bratt, a politic...
May 31, 2017
Evacuation alert lifted near Lillooet wildfire
LILLOOET, B.C. - The BC Wildfire Service is gaining the upper hand over the first significant wildfire of the season. The 30 hectare Fountain Valley Road wildfire eight kilometres east of Lillooet is ...
May 31, 2017
Repairs underway to fix Highway 97 sinkhole
VERNON, B.C. - The Ministry of Transportation hopes to have a sinkhole site in Vernon repaired and back in service by this weekend. A four foot wide hole emerged in the northbound lanes by Polson Park...
May 31, 2017
B.C. officials continue search for man who is believed to have died in mudslide
SALMON ARM , B.C. - RCMP say they are not giving up the search for a man who has been missing since a mudslide hit his home in the Shuswap-area of British Columbia nearly four weeks ago. Staff Sgt. Sc...
May 31, 2017
Horgan, Weaver deliver political agreement documents to government house
VICTORIA - The leaders of British Columbia’s New Democrats and Greens have attended government house to deliver signed copies of their four-year agreement to run the province under a minority go...
May 31, 2017
Collaboration between U.S. and drug companies could benefit Canada: scientist
VANCOUVER - A scientist says a public-private partnership aimed at developing medications that would combat overdose deaths in the United States could potentially help chronic drug users in Canada. Dr...
May 31, 2017
