Category Archives: British Columbia
Liberal party in British Columbia gives back donations worth over $174,000
VANCOUVER - New reports released by Elections BC show the Liberal party returned almost $175,000 in political contributions it received in the last six years. A Liberal party spokeswoman said in an em...
Apr 19, 2017
Multiple same-day marriages referenced at polygamy trial of two B.C. men
CRANBROOK, B.C. - Dozens of marriage certificates, some referencing weddings taking place on the same day involving girls with the same last name, were entered as evidence Wednesday at the trial of tw...
Apr 19, 2017
Toll reaches almost four a day in B.C.'s overdose crisis: coroner
VICTORIA - Nearly four people died every day last month from an illicit drug overdose in British Columbia. Data from the BC Coroners Service says 120 people died in March, the third-highest death toll...
Apr 19, 2017
B.C. NDP call Liberal attacks on platform economics ‘fearmongering’
VANCOUVER - Christy Clark's Liberals are ramping up attacks on the NDP's ability to manage British Columbia's economy, accusing the party of releasing a platform that will cost billions with no way to...
Apr 19, 2017
Six Kaslo, B.C., homes still evacuated after slide, order lifted for 41 others
KASLO, B.C. - The threat of further slides is keeping six families out of their homes in southeastern B.C., but residents of 41 other properties were allowed to return Tuesday night. The Regional Dist...
Apr 19, 2017
One person killed in shooting, another in custody after attack in Nanaimo, B.C.
NANAIMO, B.C. - One person is dead after a shooting in Nanaimo, B.C. RCMP say the attack happened in the southern part of the city early Wednesday morning. Const. Gary O'Brien says in a news release t...
Apr 19, 2017
RCMP investigate two suspicious deaths in Williams Lake
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - RCMP are investigating a pair of suspicious deaths in Williams Lake. Investigators were called to a home in the Mackenzie Avenue area at 8:46 last night, and found the two victim...
Apr 19, 2017
Greens come up short in bid to run candidates in all 87 B.C. ridings
VANCOUVER - Time's up for candidates to register for the B.C. election, and the Green party has missed its mark of running a candidate in all 87 provincial ridings. Party spokesman Stefan Jonsson says...
Apr 19, 2017
B.C. election: Key developments from Day Eight on the campaign trail
VANCOUVER - A look at some key developments from Day Eight of the B.C. election campaign for each of the parties: LIBERALS: - Leader Christy Clark visited a concrete company in Fort St. John that is w...
Apr 18, 2017
Crown argues accused Tamil migrant smugglers driven by profit, not aid
VANCOUVER - Four men who orchestrated a dangerous voyage across the Pacific were out to make a profit, rather than mutually help dozens of Tamil asylum seekers, the Crown prosecutor told their B.C. Su...
Apr 18, 2017
