Category Archives: British Columbia
Search continues for Salmon Arm senior with dementia
SALMON ARM - Salmon Arm residents are being asked to check their own properties as the search for a missing Salmon Arm senior with dementia continues. The RCMP say Christopher Allbury, 70, was last se...
May 11, 2016
Nurses ratify 5-year deal with province
KAMLOOPS - Health Minister Terry Lake says it’s a great way to celebrate Nursing Week in BC. The province and its nurses have announced a new five-year agreement has been ratified, with 85 per c...
May 11, 2016
Wheelchair burlesque to strip down stigma, sex up disability
VANCOUVER - Talking about sex can be awkward for anyone, but some people with disabilities say expressing their most intimate needs can often feel insurmountable. To challenge the taboo, a group of pe...
May 11, 2016
B.C. parents convicted of spanking teen daughter get conditional discharge
SALMON ARM , B.C. - A British Columbia mother and father have been given a conditional discharge after using a plastic hockey stick and a skipping rope to spank their 14-year-old daughter. B.C. Provin...
May 10, 2016
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
