Category Archives: British Columbia
Tolko Mill employees clock out for the last time
MERRITT, B.C. - There are just nine days before Christmas, and for Tolko employees in Merritt the holidays will not be as festive as usual. Today (Dec. 16) marks the last day the mill is in operation....
Dec 16, 2016
Petition leads to improved maintenance on Interior highways
KAMLOOPS - Drivers in the Southern Interior are being reassured highway maintenance has improved, following a petition last year. Merritt Mayor Neil Menard says last year over 2,500 people in the Inte...
Dec 16, 2016
Helicopter to prevent snow, ice bombs falling on vehicles from bridge cables
VANCOUVER - A heavy-lift helicopter has been called in to help keep traffic flowing smoothly on a Vancouver-area bridge where vehicles have been damaged by so-called ice bombs. B.C.'s Transportation M...
Dec 16, 2016
Three charged after bombs, guns discovered in traffic stop
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Three people arrested by Williams Lake RCMP earlier this week appeared in court today (Dec. 16) facing numerous explosives and firearms charges. Dyami Diana Rickman, James Robert...
Dec 16, 2016
B.C. coroner, police, politicians issue overdose alert after 11 deaths
VANCOUVER - An urgent warning has been sent out to illicit drug users in British Columbia after at least 11 people died in the province on Thursday alone, six of them in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside....
Dec 16, 2016
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
