Category Archives: British Columbia
Black bear with a taste for tuna damages SUV in southeastern B.C
FAIRMONT HOT SPRINGS, B.C. - A Fairmont, B.C., man has learned the hard way that a tunafish sandwich can lead to a lot of damage. RCMP say the victim left his sandwich in his SUV in the southeastern B...
Oct 26, 2016
No cause pinpointed for Shuswap fatal
CHASE, B.C. - An investigation has failed to pinpoint a cause of a deadly crash in the Shuswap last year. A car collided with a tour bus on Highway 1 near Chase in July 2015, killing the car’s 1...
Oct 26, 2016
Mount Polley Mining Corporation seeks approval for discharge
WILLIAMS LAKE - B.C. residents are being invited to comment on Mount Polley Mining Corporation’s plans for long-term water management at the Cariboo-region site. The company is applying to disch...
Oct 26, 2016
Car crashes into home in Burnaby after shooting
BURNABY - Burnaby RCMP is investigating an unusual case this morning after a car slammed into a house following a shooting. Shortly after 1 a.m. RCMP responded to reports of shots fired near Broadway ...
Oct 26, 2016
Sunken B.C. tug’s tanks now pumped out, thousands of litres of fuel not recovered
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - More than 90,000 litres of diesel have yet to be accounted for after a group overseeing cleanup of a spill from a submerged tug on British Columbia's central coast said the tanks a...
Oct 25, 2016
Highway closed after rock slide injures contractors working to prevent slides
FIELD, B.C. - Two workers have been injured in a rock slide in Yoho National Park that has closed the Trans-Canada Highway for an extended period. RCMP say the slide happened Monday west of Field, B.C...
Oct 25, 2016
Critics call for more social housing as Vancouver set to dismantle homeless camp
VANCOUVER - The City of Vancouver says outreach workers are helping about two dozen people move into a shelter after the homeless camp they were staying at was deemed unsafe. City spokesman Tobin Post...
Oct 25, 2016
CN Rail working to reopen tracks near Yale, B.C., after derailment
YALE, B.C. - Crews with CN Rail have made good progress repairing tracks following a derailment in British Columbia's Fraser Canyon. An email from CN spokesman Brent Kossey says crews worked through t...
Oct 25, 2016
Arguments being heard in sentencing of Clearwater killer
KAMLOOPS - Sentencing submissions have begun for a man who admitted to killing his estranged wife in Clearwater more than two years ago. On April 20 of 2014, Iain Scott stabbed 33 year old Angila Wils...
Oct 25, 2016
B.C. called on to release province-wide statistics on police-dog bites
VANCOUVER - A month after a bystander was mistakenly mauled by a Vancouver police dog, a legal advocacy group is calling on the provincial government to release newly gathered numbers outlining how ma...
Oct 25, 2016
