Category Archives: British Columbia
Drivers, Mounties, team up to help truck driver south of Vancouver
VANCOUVER - Mounties responsible for patrolling highways south of Vancouver credit some proactive drivers and two alert RCMP officers for averting a potentially nasty crash. Sgt. Lorne Lecker with Dea...
Jul 12, 2016
LNG Canada delays final decision on Kitimat project, no new timeline set
VANCOUVER - Instability in global energy markets has caused international partners in a proposed liquefied natural gas project in Kitimat, B.C., to delay their final decision on the venture. LNG Canad...
Jul 11, 2016
Crews stand down in bog fire outside Vancouver, cause still being investigated
DELTA, B.C. - Crews working for the fire department in Delta, B.C., are withdrawing from an ecologically sensitive bog more than a week after it caught fire. Delta Fire says the fire in Burns Bog is f...
Jul 11, 2016
B.C. supports housing vacancy tax in Vancouver to assist with rental shortage
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government will support the city of Vancouver's request for a tax on vacant housing. Finance Minister Mike de Jong has announced the legislature will meet July 25 to c...
Jul 11, 2016
BC Ferries offers new southern Gulf Island schedules as two ships set to arrive
VANCOUVER - BC Ferries says travel to the southern Gulf Islands will be much easier starting in May 2017. The Crown corporation has released next year's schedules for the routes from Vancouver Island ...
Jul 11, 2016
Lillooet community wins $100,000 to build new playground
LILLOOET, B.C. - Beating out 500 other contenders from across B.C., Lillooet has won a $100,000 play space revitalization in the BCAA Play Here Contest. The winning space was named a finalist in the c...
Jul 11, 2016
Hunters say elk populations fall in southeastern B.C., but hunting ban opposed
CRANBROOK, B.C. - Hunters in British Columbia's East Kootenay region are warning of what they say is a dramatic drop in the number of elk in the southeastern corner of the province. The president of t...
Jul 11, 2016
Arson, 2nd-degree murder charges laid in fire that killed mother of six
PORT MOODY, B.C. - Charges have been laid in a fire that killed a mother of six in Port Moody, B.C. A tweet from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the accused is facing one count of seco...
Jul 11, 2016
Halfway house resident wanted by Vancouver police turns himself in
VANCOUVER - A man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant is back in police custody after turning himself into RCMP in Surrey, B.C. Police put out an alert Saturday saying they were looking for 47-year-old Ri...
Jul 10, 2016
Protesters rally against construction of B.C. Site C hydroelectric dam
VANCOUVER - Dozens of people gathered at a Vancouver park on Saturday to protest the construction of the Site-C dam in northeastern British Columbia. Protest organizers from the group "Fight C" said t...
Jul 10, 2016
