Category Archives: British Columbia
Snowmobilers spend frigid night in Clearwater backcountry
KAMLOOPS - One snowmobiler is lucky to be alive after falling off a cliff bank northeast of Clearwater Saturday. Kamloops Search and Rescue Search Manager Alan Hobler says an Alberta man and four othe...
Jan 15, 2017
Police say fire at Abbotsford, B.C., home is suspicious
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A Saturday morning blaze at an Abbotsford, B.C., residence is being deemed suspicious by investigators. Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service arrived to find the home engulfed in flames. A...
Jan 14, 2017
Sri Lankan man owned ship that smuggled Tamil migrants to Canada: Crown
VANCOUVER, B.C. - A Sri Lankan man accused of human smuggling was the owner of the rickety cargo ship that transported hundreds of Tamil migrants from Thailand to British Columbia, a Crown prosecutor ...
Jan 14, 2017
B.C. Liberals report donations in 'real time,' raise $12.3 million in 2016
VICTORIA - The British Columbia Liberal Party says it will begin posting its political donations in real time, starting Friday by revealing it collected $12.3 million in corporate and individual contr...
Jan 13, 2017
Water advisory issued following train derailment
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health is advising the public not to drink water from the Thompson River for up to 50 kilometers downstream of the site of a train derailment Thursday. A CP train carrying meta-llu...
Jan 13, 2017
RCMP seize $250,000 worth of drugs near Chase, B.C.
CHASE, B.C. - RCMP have pulled what they deem a significant amount of drugs from a vehicle stopped near Chase Wednesday. Police say the vehicle, bearing Saskatchewan plates, was headed eastbound on th...
Jan 13, 2017
Police in Delta, B.C., using GPS darts to track vehicles that flee
DELTA, B.C. - A police department in British Columbia's Lower Mainland is using technology that looks like it is taken from the latest Batman movie to track fleeing vehicles. Police in Delta have begu...
Jan 13, 2017
Police searching for suspect accused of assaulting B.C. officer
COQUITLAM, B.C. - RCMP say they are looking for a Burnaby, B.C., man who is wanted for allegedly assaulting an officer with a weapon. Mounties say a Port Moody police officer suffered non-life threate...
Jan 12, 2017
Train carrying coal derails near Ashcroft
ASHCROFT, B.C. - A train has derailed just south of Ashcroft. Cache Creek Mayor John Ranta tells CFJC Today a total of 29 rail cars left the track. Initial reports had indicated 4 cars might have gone...
Jan 12, 2017
BC Hydro agrees to pay $1M to municipality affected by Site C dam
HUDSON'S HOPE, B.C. - The District of Hudson's Hope on the edge of the Peace River in northeastern B.C. has reached a $1-million agreement with BC Hydro for compensation to mitigate the impacts of the...
Jan 12, 2017
