Category Archives: British Columbia
BC Hydro sets contract for controversial Site C dam at $1.75 billion
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s power utility will pay a consortium of three companies about $1.75 billion to build the largest components of the controversial Site C hydroelectric dam in the pro...
Dec 21, 2015
Nicola Valley group purchase biosolid land
KAMLOOPS - 19 Nicola Valley residents have pooled their money and purchased a controversial property planned as a biosolids processing site. The 320-acre parcel at Dry Lake was previously owned by Bio...
Dec 21, 2015
Shuswap standoff leads to house fire
EAGLE BAY - Some serious drama unfolded in the normally-sleepy Shuswap community of Eagle Bay overnight. It began at about 10pm Sunday December 20, when Salmon Arm RCMP were called to a tense disturba...
Dec 21, 2015
Fire destroys Barriere mobile home
KAMLOOPS - A Barriere man has been left with nothing after his mobile home went up in flames yesterday. Barriere Fire Chief Al Kirkwood says crews were called to the Riverland Trailer Park at about 2:...
Dec 21, 2015
Evolving B.C. tech startups threaten to disrupt 'dinosaur' industries
VANCOUVER - One technology startup is using artificial intelligence to save people who book online flights up to 80 per cent. Another helps farmers boost their crop yields with a mobile app that manag...
Dec 21, 2015
Police investigate deaths in Lower Mainland
VANCOUVER - Collision analysts have been called in to assess the scene of a fatal hit-and-run in South Langley. Langley RCMP say they responded early on Sunday to find a 44-year-old pedestrian had bee...
Dec 21, 2015
Missing cheetah in B.C.'s Interior still on the lam, Calgary zoo offers to help
VANCOUVER - A cheetah on the loose in British Columbia’s Interior is still unaccounted for after it was last spotted roaming a snowy highway in the Kootenay region last week. As of Sunday evenin...
Dec 20, 2015
Snowfall warning for the Coquihalla
KAMLOOPS - A snowfall Warning is still in place for the Coquihalla Highway today between Merritt and Hope. Up to 25 centimetres of snow could fall by this evening as a result of a pacific front tracki...
Dec 20, 2015
Canadian cities to tame downtown white elephants of 'wrong-headed planning'
VANCOUVER - It was a mid-century effort to launch Vancouver into the modern age - an elevated roadway made up of tonnes of concrete cutting through the city’s shiny downtown core to serve the al...
Dec 20, 2015
Police seek cheetah spotted along southeast B.C. highway
CRESTON, B.C. - Conservation officers are looking for a cheetah seen wandering the snowy roads of southeastern British Columbia. RCMP in Creston said the cheetah was spotted along Highway 3A on Thursd...
Dec 19, 2015
