Category Archives: British Columbia
Weak snow layer raises risk of avalanche, prompts warning in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Backcountry hikers, skiers and snomobilers across British Columbia are being warned to take extreme care this weekend. Avalanche Canada has issued a special public warning that begins toda...
Jan 22, 2016
B.C. government mulling more electric car incentives, says energy minister
VICTORIA - Energy Minister Bill Bennett says the government is considering a second expansion of British Columbia's incentive programs for electric car buyers. The $10.6 million Clean Energy Vehicle P...
Jan 21, 2016
BC Hydro seeks injunction against Site C dam protesters in province’s north
VANCOUVER - A months-long dispute is heating up between BC Hydro and a small group of First Nations and landowners who are protesting the construction of the $9-billion Site C dam. The power utility h...
Jan 21, 2016
Search ends happily for two backcountry skiers overdue in north Okanagan
VERNON, B.C. - Two backcountry skiers are safe after being reported overdue in B.C.'s north Okanagan. Vernon Search and Rescue manager Leigh Pearson says the two are from the Lumby area, east of Verno...
Jan 21, 2016
B.C.’s first coastal cable ferry to begin carrying passengers, cars, on Friday
VANCOUVER - BC Ferries says its new cable ferry is officially ready for service, linking Denman Island, one of the northern Gulf Islands, with Buckley Bay on Vancouver Island. So-called soft sailings ...
Jan 21, 2016
Ministers to put dollars, marijuana on health agenda with Ottawa
VANCOUVER - Issues from increased funding to marijuana will be on the table when the provincial and territorial health ministers meet with their federal counterpart today in Vancouver. The ministers s...
Jan 21, 2016
Vancouver liable for woman’s jail treatment, but restraint device ‘justified’
VANCOUVER - When Bobbi O'Shea sued the City of Vancouver and four police constables for binding her feet together and tethering them under a jail door, she hoped her case would end the practice. Inste...
Jan 21, 2016
B.C. high court upholds manslaughter convictions for two Kelowna men
VANCOUVER - Two Kelowna, B.C., men convicted of manslaughter in the beating death of a 51-year-old man have lost appeals in the province's highest court. Matthew McRae and Anson Schell were sentenced ...
Jan 20, 2016
B.C. ranchers protect 4,500 hectares of land from development: conservancy
INVERMERE, B.C. - A southeastern British Columbia ranch 11 times the size of Stanley Parks has been protected from development by its owners. The Nature Conservancy of Canada says Bob and Barb Shaunes...
Jan 20, 2016
Wolf cull resumes as opponents take fight against B.C. to court
VICTORIA - British Columbia's controversial wolf cull program that involves shooting the animals from helicopters to save endangered caribou herds is on again in the Kootenay region, the government sa...
Jan 20, 2016
