Category Archives: British Columbia
Advocacy group calls for body cameras after police-dog mauls bystander
VANCOUVER - A legal advocacy group in British Columbia is calling for dog handlers with the Vancouver Police Department to wear body cameras after a bystander was accidentally mauled earlier this week...
Sep 22, 2016
Trans-Canada Highway to be improved at Salmon Arm, B.C., with new bridge coming
SALMON ARM , B.C. - The B.C. government has announced plans to widen the Trans-Canada Highway west of the downtown core in Salmon Arm. The Transportation Ministry says the project, through two First N...
Sep 22, 2016
Lumby murder trial to begin jury deliberations
VERNON, B.C. - A jury will start deciding the fate of a North Okanagan murder suspect on Friday (September 23). 57 year old Howard Krewson is accused of the second degree murder of his girlfriend Lind...
Sep 22, 2016
Pot tax, homelessness on agenda at upcoming B.C. municipal convention
VICTORIA - Nearly 2,000 municipal politicians, civic staff and other community leaders are preparing for a five-day Union of B.C. Municipalities convention beginning Monday in Victoria. Representative...
Sep 22, 2016
Figures show B.C. foreign buyers tax set off completion frenzy before deadline
VICTORIA - Property purchase figures released Thursday by British Columbia's government reveals a stampede of foreign home buyers scrambling to avoid paying an additional 15 per cent a tax in the days...
Sep 22, 2016
More median barriers coming to Highway 5 North
KAMLOOPS - In an attempt to prevent serious collisions along the Highway 5 North corridor in Kamloops, two kilometres of median barriers will be installed. Barriers were installed from the Halston Con...
Sep 22, 2016
Forecasters backtracking on winter prognostication
VANCOUVER - The autumnal equinox arrived just after seven this morning, making this the first day of fall — but forecasters say most British Columbians won’t need the winter boots and wool...
Sep 22, 2016
Royal tour shows off Canada’s beauty, shines light on social issues
VICTORIA - It's been almost 30 years since Diana, Princess of Wales, kissed an AIDS patient on the cheek. Her open-hearted, selfless gesture of compassion at London's Mildmay Hospital in 1989 was noti...
Sep 22, 2016
B.C.’s child watchdog asks Attorney General to intervene in Metis toddler case
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's representative for children and youth is urging the province's attorney general to intervene in the case of a Metis toddler being adopted to non-aboriginal parents in On...
Sep 22, 2016
B.C. coroner warns against complacency in wake of encouraging overdose stats
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is bombarding the province with thousands of overdose-reversing naloxone kits as part of an all-out assault against a drug crisis that has killed 488 people so far this ye...
Sep 22, 2016
