Category Archives: British Columbia
Windy, stormy weather puts clean up operations on hold for sunken B.C. tug
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - Blustery, wet weather thwarted efforts Thursday to assess the fallout of a sunken tugboat leaking diesel in a remote region off British Columbia's central coast. All small boats in...
Oct 19, 2016
Girl’s leg broken during cheese-rolling festival in Whistler, B.C.: lawsuit
VANCOUVER - A cheese-rolling competition in Whistler, B.C., went from fun to frightening when a runaway wheel of cheddar crashed into a three-year-old girl and broke her leg, a lawsuit alleges. The no...
Oct 19, 2016
Basketball star Steve Nash wants court to order fit clubs to stop using his name
VANCOUVER - Former basketball superstar Steve Nash is seeking a court order banning the use of his name or image on nearly two dozen fitness clubs in British Columbia. A civil lawsuit filed in B.C. Su...
Oct 19, 2016
Barriere fire chief resigns amid police investigation
BARRIERE, B.C. - Barriere Mayor Virginia Smith has confirmed the community’s Volunteer Fire Chief Al Kirkwood has resigned amid a police investigation. “Mr. Kirkwood has resigned as fire c...
Oct 19, 2016
First stage of investigation into fatal B.C. plane crash concludes at scene
KELOWNA, B.C. - Transportation Safety Board investigators are wrapping up their work at the scene of a fatal plane crash in British Columbia that killed former Alberta premier Jim Prentice and three o...
Oct 19, 2016
Rare comic book that could be worth thousands stolen in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - A collection of rare comics has been stolen in a Vancouver break-in. The Vancouver Police Department says a 45-kilogram safe was stolen from a home, with the stack of valuable comics insid...
Oct 19, 2016
Minister says new Vancouver school board trustee not considering closures
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's education minister says no schools in Vancouver are expected to be closed following the dismissal of the district's entire school board. Mike Bernier says the former sup...
Oct 18, 2016
Lake calls for Trudeau, first ministers to intervene in health transfer deadlock
TORONTO - BC Health Minister Terry Lake says he doesn’t believe the country’s health ministers can reach a consensus on transfer payments without intervention from Prime Minister Justin Tr...
Oct 18, 2016
Suspect arrested in homicide of Hells Angels gang member killed in Langley, B.C.
LANGLEY, B.C. - Police say a 27-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a "well-established" member of the Hells Angels in Langley, B.C. The Integrated Homicide Investi...
Oct 18, 2016
Private prosecution launched over 2014 collapse of the Mount Polley dam
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - An advocacy group has launched a private prosecution under the Fisheries Act against the B.C. government and a mining company over the disastrous consequences of the collapse of ...
Oct 18, 2016
