Category Archives: British Columbia
Five suspects in Chilliwack-based drug ring face 50 weapons, trafficking charges
VANCOUVER - A drug trafficking investigation that has stretched across British Columbia since 2014 has now produced dozens more charges. A release from the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, wh...
Feb 18, 2016
Province uncorks rules to licence VQA wineries in B.C. grocery stores
VANCOUVER - Grocery stores hoping to sell British Columbia's high-quality wines, ciders and sake will have to bid against each other for the chance to apply for a licence. The province has released de...
Feb 18, 2016
Finning to cut up to 500 additional jobs in 2016
VANCOUVER - Canada's largest Caterpillar heavy equipment dealer says it will cut 400 to 500 jobs from its global operations this year, on top of 1,900 that were announced last year in two separate rou...
Feb 18, 2016
Trans Mountain criticizes interveners in reply to NEB
VANCOUVER - The company hoping to twin its pipeline between Alberta and B.C. claims some interveners broke the National Energy Board's rules when they presented oral arguments at recent hearings on th...
Feb 18, 2016
Wells Gray killer waives right to parole hearing
KAMLOOPS - The man who killed six members of the Johnson and Bentley family in Wells Gray Park 34 years ago has waived his right to a 2016 parole hearing. Relatives of the victims were informed of Dav...
Feb 18, 2016
B.C. teacher fired, two others disciplined in latest rulings from Teacher Branch
VANCOUVER - A teacher in Invermere, B.C., will no longer be working in a public school after being disciplined for sending inappropriate text messages to a Grade 11 student. A decision by the Teacher ...
Feb 17, 2016
Trans Mountain criticizes interveners in reply argument to National Energy Board
VANCOUVER - Trans Mountain says some interveners broke the National Energy Board's rules when they presented oral arguments at recent hearings on the proposed pipeline expansion. The company has filed...
Feb 17, 2016
Prop prompts Salmon Arm school lockdown
SALMON ARM, B.C. - Now here’s a prop designer who should get props for making a realistic-looking prop. RCMP in Salmon Arm rushed to Okanagan Avenue yesterday (February 16) after two people repo...
Feb 17, 2016
Drummers, dancers welcome B.C.’s 1st female aboriginal MLA to legislature
VICTORIA - Drummers and dancers welcomed British Columbia's first aboriginal woman elected to the legislature in an emotional ceremony that saw Melanie Mark wiping away tears. Mark is one of two New D...
Feb 17, 2016
Coroners inquest makes 16 recommendations following fatal police shooting
VANCOUVER - A coroners inquest has made 16 recommendations after hearing the case of a 48-year-old man who as fatally shot by police outside a British Columbia casino. Mehrdad Bayrami was shot and kil...
Feb 17, 2016
