Category Archives: British Columbia

VICTORIA - "It's a bit of a setback, but only a delay."The words of Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry on the delay of the Pfizer vaccine arriving in Canada. The delay is due to a production d...

100 MILE HOUSE, B.C. - The backcountry survival skills of a British Columbia teen who got lost while snowmobiling are being praised by search and rescue volunteers who found him safe. The South Caribo...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says it is phasing out two types of travel identification cards that allowed easier entrance into the United States. The enhanced driver's licence and enhanc...

VICTORIA - A Victoria firefighter says using a jackhammer and other home repair tools to save a cat stuck in a tiny basement drainpipe ranks as the strangest rescue call he's been on in his 20-year ca...

VANCOUVER - Staff in long-term care homes across Canada are struggling to isolate elderly residents with dementia during COVID-19 outbreaks, accelerating the deadly spread of the virus, experts say. T...

VICTORIA - A coalition of British Columbia tourism industry groups is urging the provincial government not to pursue plans to ban domestic travel in their efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. The c...

SQUAMISH, B.C. - A snowshoer who set out alone on a rugged mountain trail on Vancouver's north shore Thursday has died.Squamish RCMP say the 21-year-old woman from Ontario was removed from a steep gul...

DELTA, B.C. - A hospice that has refused to provide medical assistance in dying based on religious objections will have to vacate a facility in Delta, B.C., by the end of March.Health Minister Adrian ...

PRINCE GEORGE - British Columbia's provincial government is reporting 509 new cases of COVID-19 in BC, 49 in northern health. That brings the total number of cases in B.C. to 60,117 - 53,115 people ha...

VANCOUVER - The director of the University of British Columbia's school of population and public health has resigned after apologizing for taking a holiday trip during the COVID-19 pandemic. Peter Ber...