Category Archives: British Columbia
Williams Lake wants to inject high-risk offenders with GPS tracking devices
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia community wants to take the extraordinary step of implanting high-risk and prolific offenders with GPS tracking devices in a bid to curb its crime problem. City council ...
Feb 25, 2016
Victoria homeless camp stages block party on planned eviction day
VICTORIA - Homeless campers on the grounds of Victoria's courthouse staged a block party Thursday as they faced eviction from a tent city where more than 100 people have lived for months. The party go...
Feb 24, 2016
Another tropical animal washes up on a cold B.C. beach
HAIDA GWAII, B.C. - Researchers say a third tropical animal has found its way to a cold British Columbia beach this winter. This time, the rarely seen Risso's dolphin was found dead on a Haida Gwaii b...
Feb 24, 2016
Tiny western toads put economic, environmental squeeze on village of Nakusp
VICTORIA - A migration of toads described as a croaking, moving carpet and one of the world's environmental wonders is dividing a southeastern British Columbia village over forestry jobs and the prote...
Feb 24, 2016
Tourism up 7.9 per cent in British Columbia
British Columbia had close to five million international visitors in 2015. That was up 7.9% increase over the previous year, or 359-thousand more people. The biggest increases were from France, up 32%...
Feb 24, 2016
Judge strikes down law barring patients from growing medical marijuana
VANCOUVER - A Federal Court judge has struck down "arbitrary and overbroad" legislation introduced by the former Conservative government that barred medical marijuana patients from growing their own c...
Feb 24, 2016
Boy robbed of his bike at gunpoint in Williams Lake
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Police in Williams Lake looking for a couple of suspects who reportedly robbed a 14-year old boy of his BMX bike at the Boitanio Skate Park. It happened while the boy was celebra...
Feb 24, 2016
Suspicious fire at Merritt Secondary School
MERRITT, B.C. - The Nicola-Similkameen School District has some unexpected school repairs to make after a fire at Merritt Secondary School on February 23rd. Merritt Fire Chief Dave Tomkinson says the ...
Feb 23, 2016
Vancouver goes mobile with movable, modular housing in bid to fight homelessness
Vancouver is going mobile in its latest approach to end homelessness. The city is looking for a company to design a series of transportable housing units aimed at getting some of the municipality's mo...
Feb 23, 2016
Enderby crash claims woman's life
ENDERBY, B.C. - A two vehicle crash 3 km. north of Enderby around 7 am this (Tuesday) morning has turned into a fatality. North Okanagan RCMP confirm a woman driving a car that collided with a truck h...
Feb 23, 2016
