Category Archives: British Columbia
Court hears guilty pleas in cattle-abuse case in B.C.’s Fraser Valley
CHILLIWACK, B.C. - A company that owns a dairy farm in British Columbia's Fraser Valley and one of its directors have pleaded guilty in a violent cattle-abuse case that was the first of its kind in th...
Dec 16, 2016
Employers replace beep-beep-beep with ‘psssht-psssht’ back-up alarm: WorkSafeBC
RICHMOND, B.C. - British Columbia's worker-safety agency says more employers are replacing the beep-beep-beep back-up alarm on vehicles with white noise for safety's sake. WorkSafeBC says the white-no...
Dec 16, 2016
Man targeted by Creep Catchers sentenced to prison for child luring
CHILLIWACK, B.C. - A British Columbia man targeted by the vigilante group Creep Catchers has been sentenced to prison. Sixty-seven-year-old Don Putt was sentenced to six months, but with credit for ti...
Dec 15, 2016
Vancouver police say man who tried to remove officer's gun from holster arrested
VANCOUVER - A man who allegedly tried to remove a gun from a Vancouver police officer's holster has been charged. Police say several 911 callers reported seeing a man pushing pedestrians at an interse...
Dec 15, 2016
Emergency Operations Centre activated due to ice jam
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - The City of Prince George has activated a level-one emergency operations centre (EOC) due to continued ice build-up on the Nechako River near the confluence with the Fraser. Emer...
Dec 15, 2016
Police discover bombs, firearms after Williams Lake traffic stop
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Police in Williams Lake say an officer’s intuition led to a huge weapons and explosives seizure yesterday. Mounties were en route to another call when they pulled over a ve...
Dec 15, 2016
B.C. offers five-year, interest-free down-payment loans to first-time buyers
SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia wants to help first-time homebuyers scrape together more money for their down payments with five-year interest-free and payment-free loans, but critics say the plan cou...
Dec 15, 2016
B.C. offers anglers gift-card reward for help in trout research project
NANAIMO, B.C. - One hundred cutthroat trout on Comox Lake have been tagged as part of a B.C. government research project to assess the fish population's health. The tags have a four-digit identificati...
Dec 15, 2016
B.C.’s economy to grow in 2017, but regional divide exists: credit union
VANCOUVER - A B.C. credit union says Vancouver, Victoria and Kelowna will lead the province in economic growth next year, while other regions of the province will grow slowly. Central 1 Credit Union s...
Dec 15, 2016
B.C. judge tells prison to detail in writing why it’s segregating woman
VANCOUVER - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has directed a prison in Prince George to inform an inmate in writing before she could be placed back in restrictive custody, where she spent most of the last th...
Dec 15, 2016
