Category Archives: British Columbia
Police investigating after two bodies found in West Kelowna
WEST KELOWNA, B.C. - Police are investigating after two bodies were discovered in a residential area of West Kelowna, B.C. RCMP Const. Jesse O'Donaghey says police received a call around 7 a.m. Wednes...
Mar 02, 2016
Environment shouldn’t become arena for political fights: Trudeau
VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the environment shouldn't be a partisan issue. Trudeau says politicians may have different views and backgrounds, but they can still come together in the...
Mar 02, 2016
First drowning of the year on Okanagan Lake
KELOWNA, B.C. - The Okanagan has registered it’s first drowning of 2016. A 40-year old West Kelowna man died last night after being in the waters off the old Gellatly Bay wharf for up to 30 minu...
Mar 02, 2016
B.C. SPCA says first time company has been charged with animal cruelty on farm
CHILLIWACK, B.C. - Twenty counts of animal cruelty have been laid against a dairy farm and seven of its employees in British Columbia's Fraser Valley, about 18 months after a disturbing video surfaced...
Mar 02, 2016
B.C. says Great Bear Rainforest act comes out of groups learning to co-exist
VICTORIA - Premier Christy Clark says her government's protection of the Great Bear Rainforest is British Columbia's gift to the world. The province introduced legislation Tuesday that protects most o...
Mar 01, 2016
Trudeau gives boost to market-oriented group on clean-economy initiative
VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a boost Tuesday to a new cross-sectoral group of business leaders, labour, non-governmental organizations, government and academics who want to accelerat...
Mar 01, 2016
Interior Health warns public of drug overdose spike
VERNON, B.C. - Drug overdoes are on the rise across British Columbia. Dr Trevor Corneil, medical health officer with Interior Health, says there was 60 in their coverage area last year, and 15 in Janu...
Mar 01, 2016
Funding adds new quake sensors off B.C. coast, able to sound early alarm
VANCOUVER - The organization that monitors undersea conditions off Canada's coast lines will soon have more tools to sound early warnings of potentially damaging earthquakes in an area of the West Coa...
Mar 01, 2016
Snowfall warning issued for Coquihalla Summit
KAMLOOPS - It was snowing in Kamloops this morning, it’s white at the top of the Coquihalla Summit, and Environment Canada says it will only get whiter. The agency has issued a snowfall warning ...
Mar 01, 2016
Fatal crash in Kelowna
KELOWNA, B.C. - One person has died following a fatal collision between two cars and a semi-trailer truck last (Monday) night in Kelowna. The crash happened around 9:00 p.m. at the intersection of Hig...
Mar 01, 2016
