Category Archives: British Columbia

Helicopter pilot expected to survive after serious crash
KAMLOOPS - A pilot who suffered serious injuries in a helicopter crash in the Cariboo Friday afternoon, Sep 2, is expected to live. Bill Yearwood of the Transportation Safety Board says the pilot was ...
Kayla Derkach Sep 02, 2016

RCMP urge end to B.C. vigilante groups targeting online predators
SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia's Integrated Child Exploitation unit wants vigilante groups to leave policing to the professionals after media attention on a group of civilians who are posting the nam...
Kayla Derkach Sep 02, 2016

Crews make progress on Lytton wildfire, evacuation order rescinded
KAMLOOPS - Firefighters in the Lytton area are beginning to get the upper hand over the South Spencer Road fire near the community. Fire Information Officer Max Birkner says the fire is still mapped a...
Kayla Derkach Sep 02, 2016

Is Vancouver’s housing market losing its sizzle? Some facts on August home sales
VANCOUVER - Some facts on home sale figures for August released Friday by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, the first month of data available since the B.C. government brought in a tax on fo...
Kayla Derkach Sep 02, 2016

Three B.C. teachers temporarily suspended over ‘Jar of Death’ punishments
SURREY, B.C. - Three high school teachers who failed to intervene when students organized a "Jar of Death" punishment at a camp have been disciplined by the agency that regulates educators' conduct in...
Kayla Derkach Sep 02, 2016

Theft of U-Haul truck in Vernon devastates family
VERNON, B.C. - A theft in Vernon has devastated a young family. Ryan Prevost, his fiance, and one year old daughter were in the process of moving from Calgary to Vancouver, until they had their U Haul...
Kayla Derkach Sep 02, 2016

Police seek missing couple
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Police are seeking the publics assistance in locating a missing couple, Mihai Vornicu and his wife Marie Olarte. On August 8, 2016, Mihai Vornicu, a 44 years old man and his wife...
Kayla Derkach Sep 01, 2016

Police in Delta, B.C. believe fentanyl involved in 9 overdoses within 20 minutes
DELTA, B.C. - It's a miracle that no one died after nine people overdosed within a 20-minute period on what are believed to be drugs laced with fentanyl, a police chief in British Columbia says. Emerg...
Kayla Derkach Sep 01, 2016

Syrian toddler’s death had disproportionate effect on Canada: observers
VANCOUVER - It's been one year since the image of a drowned toddler lying face down on a Turkish beach turned the eyes of the world to the Syrian refugee crisis, but observers say the powerful portrai...
Kayla Derkach Sep 01, 2016

New Vancouver real estate figures anticipated after month of foreign-buyers tax
VANCOUVER - Metro Vancouver's real estate market is bracing for a steep decline in detached home sales recorded in August, as new numbers will offer a first look at the immediate impact of a tax on fo...
Kayla Derkach Sep 01, 2016

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