Category Archives: British Columbia
Victoria police chief quits as watchdog conducts investigation involving tweets
Victoria's suspended police chief quit Thursday amid an investigation into his sexually charged Twitter messages to the wife of a subordinate officer. The Victoria and Esquimalt Police Board said in a...
May 18, 2017
City of Vancouver reviews options after court refuses tent city injunction
VANCOUVER - The City of Vancouver says it is considering its options following a judge's decision not to grant an injunction that could permit removal of a tent encampment on the city's Downtown Easts...
May 18, 2017
Vancouver developer fined, banned from trading after investor loses $1M
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Securities Commission has ordered a real estate developer to pay a fine of $125,000 after a hearing concluded he defrauded a client for part of a $1-million investment in a projec...
May 18, 2017
First-degree murder charge in death of man sitting in car at Surrey, B.C., hotel
SURREY, B.C. - A charge of first-degree murder has been laid against a 22-year-old man accused of shooting another man in a hotel parking lot in Surrey, B.C. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team...
May 17, 2017
TNRD recommending boaters stay off Nicola Lake this long weekend
VANCOUVER - Waterways in British Columbia's Nicola Valley, near Merritt, are the latest to burst their banks, forcing evacuations and alerts, as flooding continues to cause problems across the souther...
May 17, 2017
Rising waters forcing more evacuations at Upper Nicola Indian Band
MERRITT, B.C. - Water levels along Nicola Lake are once again forcing the Upper Nicola Indian band to take action to protect some of its band members living. Seven more homes have been evacuated after...
May 17, 2017
Man seriously injured after parking lot mishap
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A man was seriously injured when he was run over by a pickup truck in Williams Lake yesterday. It happened at a business in the 700 block of Oliver Street. RCMP say a 26 year old...
May 17, 2017
Vancouver requires carbon monoxide alarms, sets fines for unsafe behaviours
VANCOUVER - The City of Vancouver has tightened its fire bylaw in an effort to keep residents safe from threats ranging from carbon monoxide to grass fires. Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services Capt. Jo...
May 17, 2017
Weaver says Greens will fight pipeline; calls Clark's Liberals 'reckless'
VICTORIA - British Columbia's three Green members will use their increased political clout to fight Kinder Morgan's $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, party leader Andrew Weaver s...
May 17, 2017
Former neighbour furious at slow SPCA response to cat crisis
CHASE, B.C. - The woman who reported dozens of cats living in squalid conditions on a Chase property months ago says she’s incensed it took this long for the SPCA to act. Kimberlee Colliver says...
May 17, 2017
