Category Archives: British Columbia
Site C contract $250M higher than estimate: Horgan
KAMLOOPS - NDP Leader John Horgan says a new contract announced for the Site C dam project on the Peace River comes in $250 million more than an estimate made just last month. BC Hydro has announced i...
Dec 22, 2015
Police seek man found in wrong home, asleep in bed beside female resident
SURREY, B.C. - RCMP in Surrey, B.C., are looking for a man who entered the wrong home and crawled into bed with the female resident. The man believed to be in his early 20s entered the home early Sund...
Dec 22, 2015
Canadians with marijuana convictions call on Trudeau to offer pardons
VANCOUVER - Marcus Richardson is, in the eyes of the law, a criminal. Never mind that a judge ruled the six kilograms of cannabis police found in his car was for severely ill patients at a medical mar...
Dec 22, 2015
Coquihalla open following semi-truck fire
KAMLOOPS – Updated at 12:15am. The highway is now open northbound. EARLIER: The Coquihalla highway is closed as of 10pm Monday December 21 due to a semi truck fire. Traffic is not moving between...
Dec 21, 2015
BC Hydro sets contract for controversial Site C dam at $1.75 billion
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s power utility will pay a consortium of three companies about $1.75 billion to build the largest components of the controversial Site C hydroelectric dam in the pro...
Dec 21, 2015
Nicola Valley group purchase biosolid land
KAMLOOPS - 19 Nicola Valley residents have pooled their money and purchased a controversial property planned as a biosolids processing site. The 320-acre parcel at Dry Lake was previously owned by Bio...
Dec 21, 2015
Shuswap standoff leads to house fire
EAGLE BAY - Some serious drama unfolded in the normally-sleepy Shuswap community of Eagle Bay overnight. It began at about 10pm Sunday December 20, when Salmon Arm RCMP were called to a tense disturba...
Dec 21, 2015
Fire destroys Barriere mobile home
KAMLOOPS - A Barriere man has been left with nothing after his mobile home went up in flames yesterday. Barriere Fire Chief Al Kirkwood says crews were called to the Riverland Trailer Park at about 2:...
Dec 21, 2015
Evolving B.C. tech startups threaten to disrupt 'dinosaur' industries
VANCOUVER - One technology startup is using artificial intelligence to save people who book online flights up to 80 per cent. Another helps farmers boost their crop yields with a mobile app that manag...
Dec 21, 2015
Police investigate deaths in Lower Mainland
VANCOUVER - Collision analysts have been called in to assess the scene of a fatal hit-and-run in South Langley. Langley RCMP say they responded early on Sunday to find a 44-year-old pedestrian had bee...
Dec 21, 2015
