Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C. gives eviction notices to people at tent city behind Victoria courthouse
VICTORIA - Homeless campers in Victoria should be celebrating instead of complaining after the government offered them a place to live and three meals a day in some cases, British Columbia's housing m...
Feb 05, 2016
B.C. Health Ministry reviewing delivery of emergency services
VANCOUVER - The agency that oversees British Columbia's paramedics and ambulance system has created a plan it hopes will better serve the province's growing - and aging - population. The plan stems fr...
Feb 05, 2016
Clark says B.C.’s economic engine needs cash from Ottawa to continue at top spot
VICTORIA - Premier Christy Clark says British Columbia is Canada's only economic bright spot and she wants Ottawa to back mega-projects such as a super hydro power connection between B.C. and Alberta....
Feb 05, 2016
Biosolid truck spills load into creek
CLINTON, B.C. - The Regional District of Central Okanagan says the risk to the public is minimal after one of its contractor trucks carrying biosolids flipped and dumped part of its load into a creek ...
Feb 05, 2016
Fire damages Chase family home
CHASE, B.C. - A Chase family escaped safely after their home was heavily damaged by fire yesterday. Fire Chief Brian Lauzon says crews were called to the Brooke Drive home at about 4:20 yesterday afte...
Feb 05, 2016
Hells Angels lose court bid to take back clubhouse on Vancouver Island
VANCOUVER - The Hells Angels have lost a bid to regain control of a clubhouse in Nanaimo, B.C., in advance of a civil trial scheduled for next year. The province seized the clubhouse in November 2007 ...
Feb 05, 2016
RCMP’s portrayal of Islam in terror sting ‘dubious,’ ‘eyebrow raising’: expert
VANCOUVER - Police officers involved in an undercover terrorism sting posed as spiritual guides and offered "dubious" and "eyebrow-raising" interpretations of Islam to a British Columbia man with extr...
Feb 04, 2016
Vancouver woman inspires petition to save Japan elephant from ‘concrete prison’
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver woman's impassioned blog post about an elderly elephant living in a Japanese zoo has inspired an online petition that has garnered nearly 380,000 signature urging better care f...
Feb 04, 2016
Lockdown at Vancouver Island University lifted after no man with gun located
NANAIMO, B.C. - Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, B.C., was briefly locked down Thursday morning as police investigated a report of someone with a possible gun. RCMP Const. Gary O'Brien says a t...
Feb 04, 2016
Members of HMCS Winnipeg charged with drug offences in Japan: Navy
ESQUIMALT, B.C. - Two members of a Canadian warship have been charged with drug offences in Japan, the navy says. The charges follow a port visit to Tokyo by HMCS Winnipeg, a Halifax-class frigate wit...
Feb 04, 2016
