Category Archives: British Columbia
Cops trying to save lives with CPR or naloxone won't be investigated: Watchdog
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's police watchdog will no longer investigate police officers who have provided life-saving measures resulting in someone's death. The Independent Investigations Office say...
Dec 02, 2016
Rescuers in northwestern B.C. search remote highway for missing U.S. man
ISKUT, B.C. - A search was underway along a remote northwestern B.C. highway for a 70-year-old Alaska man who was last seen on the route Monday. A news release from the RCMP says family members report...
Dec 02, 2016
Four life sentences for man who shot two former co-workers, injured two others
NANAIMO, B.C. - A man who fatally shot two former co-workers and injured two others at a sawmill in Nanaimo, B.C., has been handed four life sentences. Kevin Addison, 50, was found guilty of two count...
Dec 02, 2016
Police say two men arrested, two hospitalized after violence at Vancouver home
VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver say two men have been arrested and two others were in hospital following a violent incident at a home on the east side of the city. Const. Brian Montague says the peopl...
Dec 02, 2016
B.C. emergency service says no one factor influences ambulance response times
VANCOUVER - An official with BC Emergency Health Services says response times for ambulances are affected by many factors, making it is difficult to single out what impact the overdose crisis is havin...
Dec 02, 2016
Agency calls for public hearing into alleged misconduct by B.C. transit office
VICTORIA - British Columbia's police-complaint commissioner has determined that a public hearing is needed into allegations of professional misconduct by a Transit Police officer. The Office of the Po...
Dec 02, 2016
Firearms charges against man with alleged gang and drugs ties in Abbotsford
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - British Columbia's anti-gang agency says a man allegedly involved in a conflict over drugs in Abbotsford has been arrested and charged with firearms offences. A release from the Com...
Dec 02, 2016
Dramatic Cariboo highway rescue captured on camera
CLINTON, B.C. - A story of heroism is emerging from the South Cariboo. After a pair of crashes on Highway 97 near Chasm Road north of Clinton last night, dramatic video posted to social media shows pa...
Dec 02, 2016
Trailer park fire claims life of Blackpool woman
KAMLOOPS - A 61 year old Blackpool woman is dead after a fire at the Mountainview Trailer Park. Deputy Chief Mike Savage of the Blackpool Volunteer Fire Department says the structure fire call came in...
Dec 02, 2016
B.C. woman rescued after car plunges off cliff and into creek: RCMP
SECHELT, B.C. - The rescue of a British Columbia woman after her SUV plunged off the Sunshine Coast Highway near Sechelt and landed in a swollen creek was "miraculous," RCMP said Thursday. Mounties sa...
Dec 01, 2016
