Category Archives: British Columbia
Energy board to release ruling on Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion Thursday
VANCOUVER - The National Energy Board will issue its report on Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project on Thursday. The report will reveal whether the board supports plans to triple ...
May 18, 2016
Bear attack in Prince George
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - A Prince George man has an incredible story of survival. Yesterday afternoon (May 18) around 4:30, Reid Roberts was attacked by a bear in Forests for the World. The 46-year-old t...
May 17, 2016
Mentally ill adults need more services in and out of hospital: B.C. audit
VICTORIA - British Columbia's auditor general says mentally ill adults with a long history of hospitalization and substance abuse issues need more access to services. Carol Bellringer said there's a l...
May 17, 2016
66 gun, drug charges laid, two people charged after Abbotsford, B.C., bust
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Police in Abbotsford, B.C., say they have disrupted the drug trade in a bust that has taken narcotics and guns off the streets of that Fraser Valley city. Const. Ian MacDonald says ...
May 17, 2016
Board ruling looms for expanded Trans Mountain pipeline as Ottawa appoints panel
VANCOUVER - As a key decision looms this week on a project that will have an impact on the future of Canada's oil economy, the federal government announced details Tuesday of an additional review on t...
May 17, 2016
Sawmill fire North of Vernon
VERNON - Fire crews had to deal with an industrial fire on the Okanagan Indian Band Reserve Tuesday afternoon. A sawmill located at 2202 Highway 97, about 20 kilometres north of Vernon, caught fire ar...
May 17, 2016
Siphon Creek blaze grows in northeastern B.C., as crews hope for weather break
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Winds are expected to remain strong over northeastern British Columbia Tuesday, but fire officials are relieved gusts forecast to top 60 kilometres an hour never arrived. Environment ...
May 17, 2016
Former B.C. official faces breach of trust charge over ethnic vote plan
VANCOUVER - A former communications director in the British Columbia government has been charged with breach of trust in connection with a strategy by the Liberals to win ethnic votes in the 2013 elec...
May 17, 2016
Climate advisory panel states dissatisfaction in open letter to B.C. premier
VANCOUVER - Members of a panel advising the British Columbia government on climate change say they're concerned that the province has not moved forward on recommendations for meeting climate goals. Se...
May 17, 2016
Victim of fatal, targeted Vancouver shooting known to investigators
VANCOUVER - One man is dead in what a Vancouver Police spokesman says is a targeted shooting. Sgt. Randy Fincham says the attack occurred in the city's south Cambie neighbourhood at about 10:30 Monday...
May 17, 2016
