Category Archives: British Columbia
Attempted murder charge after vehicle shootings on three B.C. highways
CHILLIWACK, B.C. - RCMP say a man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting in Chilliwack, B.C., as they investigate nearly two dozen truck shootings along three highways. P...
Mar 29, 2017
Eight-year gap in sentence sought by Crown, defence in impaired driving case
VANCOUVER - The deep-rooted effects of Canada's residential school system must be considered in the sentencing of a drunk driver who killed three people after mowing down two cyclists on a British Col...
Mar 29, 2017
Cranbrook B.C., deer cull removes 15 animals, produces meat for local needs
CRANBROOK, B.C. - The City of Cranbrook in southeastern B.C. says it destroyed 15 habituated deer during a cull carried out in January and early February. A city news release says it could have remove...
Mar 29, 2017
Evacuation alert lifted for B.C. community where landslide killed four
JOHNSONS LANDING, B.C. - Threats of a landslide have subsided in a tiny British Columbia community where four people died in 2012 after a wave of mud and trees swept down a creek. An evacuation alert ...
Mar 29, 2017
Two drivers die in separate, head-on crashes with semi-trailers in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Separate head-on crashes in British Columbia between cars and tractor-trailers claimed two lives in as many days. A 40-year-old Surrey man was killed early Wednesday morning when his car v...
Mar 29, 2017
Police look for two armed suspects in West Kelowna robbery
KELOWNA - Not a great afternoon for the folks working at Antler Creek Outfitters in West Kelowna. They were held up yesterday afternoon around 3:30. Police are still looking for two armed suspects. Th...
Mar 29, 2017
‘In his head, he’s going to the Olympics,’ says brother of Mark McMorris
VANCOUVER - One of the first questions Mark McMorris asked doctors following a horrific crash over the weekend was if he would be healthy in time to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics. His older brot...
Mar 29, 2017
Multiple investigations after mutilated calf remains found in B.C. ditch
MISSION, B.C. - The discovery of a rotting and mutilated calf carcass in a water-filled ditch east of Vancouver is the latest such case to raise concerns for the BC Dairy Association. Spokesman Trevor...
Mar 29, 2017
Police watchdog clears officer in fatal 2015 shooting in Burnaby, B.C.
BURNABY, B.C. - An RCMP officer who fatally shot a man in Burnaby, B.C., has been cleared of wrongdoing by the province's police watchdog. The Independent Investigations Office has released a report s...
Mar 28, 2017
Court shelves group's private prosecution of Mount Polley mine collapse
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - An advocacy group says a British Columbia provincial court has shelved a bid to have charges laid for environmental damage caused by a mining disaster in British Columbia's Inter...
Mar 28, 2017
