Category Archives: British Columbia
Arrest after double stabbing leaves man hurt, another dead at B.C. homeless camp
BURNABY, B.C. - A 53-year-old man is under arrest as detectives investigate an apparent homicide in Burnaby, B.C. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the suspect was taken into custody at ...
Oct 25, 2016
Grade 8 student tells federal minister he teaches indigenous language course
VICTORIA - A Grade 8 student stunned a gathering of national aboriginal leaders and the federal indigenous affairs minister Monday by saying he volunteered to become his school's indigenous language t...
Oct 24, 2016
Shuswap shooting suspect pleads guilty
KAMLOOPS - One of two men accused of killing a man in a Shuswap drive-by shooting five years ago has pleaded guilty. Jordan Barnes of Mission entered a guilty plea to second degree murder in BC Suprem...
Oct 24, 2016
O'Keefe Ranch ups security after corn maze incident
VERNON, B.C. - The O’Keefe Ranch will be increasing security measures for its haunted corn maze after an incident management is calling isolated. Manager Glen Taylor says one of the ranch’...
Oct 24, 2016
Sinking of tug off B.C. coast prompts disaster-response rethink: minister
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - A sunken tug and the subsequent diesel spill on British Columbia’s central coast is prompting a rethink to emergency response that could allow those closest to the disaster t...
Oct 24, 2016
Hate crimes officers in Abbotsford, B.C., probe man linked to racist invective
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Officers with the Abbotsford Police Department have contacted the hate crimes unit and Crown counsel as they investigate a hate-filled rant caught on video. Sgt. Judy Bird says the ...
Oct 24, 2016
UBC, former student begin mediation for human-rights complaint
VANCOUVER - A former University of British Columbia student who filed a human rights complaint over the school's handling of sexual assault reports says mediation ended unsuccessfully after 90 minutes...
Oct 24, 2016
Family of murdered B.C. girl reacts to news of killer’s prison pregnancy
VICTORIA - Family members of a teenage girl who was viciously beaten and drowned on Vancouver Island nearly two decades ago say they wish their relative's killer well after a news report that she is p...
Oct 24, 2016
B.C. children's rep Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond issues to-do list on departure
VICTORIA - The woman who has been watching out for British Columbia's children and youth for the last decade used her final report to urge the province to be accountable and focus on children. Mary El...
Oct 24, 2016
B.C. man who killed 'defenceless' fiancee handed 12-year prison sentence
KELOWNA, B.C. - A man who admitted to stabbing his fiancee 26 times after she told him to move out because of his crack cocaine habit has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Ryan James Quigley, 37, ...
Oct 23, 2016
