Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C. tightens real estate rules to protect sellers from contract flipping
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is moving to protect property owners from predatory conduct in the real estate market by stopping so-called contract flipping without the sellers consent. Fi...
May 10, 2016
Family-crafted quilt honours missing, murdered women and girls across B.C.
VICTORIA - A handmade quilt honouring the memories of British Columbia's missing and murdered indigenous women and girls is helping their loved ones heal. The colourful patchwork quilt unveiled at the...
May 10, 2016
Foster teen deliberately jumped from Abbotsford hotel window: coroner
VANCOUVER - A coroner's report has found that a teenager whose death prompted scrutiny of the B.C. government's practice of placing at-risk foster children in hotels jumped from a fourth-floor motel w...
May 10, 2016
High-profile B.C. Mountie charged with sexual assault in ‘disturbing’ case
VANCOUVER - A high-profile former police officer who acted as the RCMP's chief spokesman in British Columbia has been charged with sexual assault in a case the province's top Mountie describes as "dis...
May 10, 2016
Coroners Service identifies Blind Bay crash victim
BLIND BAY, B.C. - The BC Coroners Service has identified a young man who died in a crash in the Shuswap last week. He was 19 year old Brody Lane Richard Southwell of Blind Bay. According to RCMP, Sout...
May 10, 2016
Small plane crashes near Lumby
LUMBY, B.C. - A small plane has crashed and caught fire in a rural area near Lumby. The plane went down in a field around 11 this morning in the 600 block of Mabel Lake Road, near a home. Three people...
May 10, 2016
150 B.C. Mounties heading to help fire-ravaged Fort McMurray, Alta.
SURREY, B.C. - Mounties from across British Columbia are heading to northern Alberta to help in fire-ravaged Fort McMurray. B.C. RCMP spokesman Staff Sgt. Rob Vermeulen says about 150 tactical troop m...
May 10, 2016
Unique vantage point helps Kitimat RCMP catch drivers endangering students
KITIMAT, B.C. - RCMP officers in Kitimat, B.C., are using creative measures to catch drivers who ignore school bus warning lights. Mounties are riding on the buses in that north coast community to nab...
May 10, 2016
Cleanup underway after pre-dawn spill of hazardous goods closes stretch of Highway 3
CRANBROOK, B.C. - A hazardous materials spill has closed a section of Highway 3 in southeastern British Columbia. Southeast District Traffic Services Sgt. Don Erichsen says a commercial vehicle rolled...
May 10, 2016
B.C. Finance Minister says government to release travel expenses, calendars
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government will soon start pushing out information to the public that is commonly requested in Freedom of Information documents. Finance Minister Mike de Jong announced...
May 09, 2016
