Category Archives: British Columbia

OTTAWA - Half of Canadians are in favour of building a new bitumen pipeline between Alberta and B.C., while fewer than one in five outright oppose it, a new poll suggests. The Leger poll, which was co...

Shareholders have given their blessing to a plan by Anglo American PLC and Teck Resources Ltd. to join forces and create one of the world's biggest copper miners. Two resolutions were up for a vote at...

KAMLOOPS - Patients seeking emergency care at four hospitals in British Columbia's Interior may now be seen by a doctor working virtually in a pilot project aimed at modernizing rural health services....

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's attorney general has announced further provincial measures aimed at combating intimate partner violence, while calling newly tabled federal legislation "a step toward ju...

VANCOUVER - A man has been arrested and charged in a fatal stranger attack in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Police say it happened on Nov. 28th near Gore and Powell streets at about 3 a.m. They say t...

NANAIMO - Police in Nanaimo, B.C., say they are investigating the disappearance of a 65-year-old woman and the subsequent discovery of her body as a homicide. RCMP say Sherry Shelley was reported miss...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is crediting its anti-speculation policies with a decline in rental asking prices. Rentals.ca says in its December report that B.C.'s average rent has fallen...

OTTAWA - Members of Parliament voted Tuesday to defeat a Conservative motion aimed at pinning down the Liberals on whether they support building a pipeline to the B.C. coast. The motion was defeated b...

VICTORIA - A member of the Royal Canadian Navy spent more than two hours in the waters off Vancouver Island after falling overboard. Maritime Forces Pacific says the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre ...

VANCOUVER - An atmospheric river is washing over several parts of British Columbia, with the worst of the weather system hitting part of Vancouver Island and the Fraser and Skagit valleys. Environment...