British Columbia

B.C. teachers' union calls for smaller classes, masks in back-to-school plan

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Teachers' Federation wants the province to reduce class sizes and make the use of masks mandatory wherever physical distancing isn't possible as part of its back-to-school pl...

Aug 19, 2020

Hundreds evacuated, thousands on notice as wildfire flares in southern B.C.

PENTICTON, B.C. - Hundreds of residents in British Columbia's southern Okanagan are out of their homes and thousands more must be ready to leave on short notice as a nearby wildfire grows in size...

Aug 19, 2020

UNBC Professors participate in collaborative effort to make B.C.'s outdoors more accessible

PRINCE GEORGE-Several UNBC professors have been working to make outdoor spaces across the province more accessible to British Columbians.The research is being supported with a $24,000 Social Sciences ...

Aug 19, 2020

Smouldering wildfire outside Lillooet, B.C., among dozens crews are tackling

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The BC Wildfire Service says crews are tackling a ground fire outside of Lillooet, B.C., that they suspect was human caused, adding to dozens of blazes sparked by recent thunderstorms...

Aug 18, 2020

B.C. Indigenous leaders call for closure of all Fraser River sockeye fisheries

VANCOUVER - First Nations groups in British Columbia are calling on the federal fisheries minister to issue an emergency order to close all sockeye fisheries on the Fraser River. A joint news rel...

Aug 18, 2020

3 new cases of COVID-19 in Northern Health, 83 in B.C.

VICTORIA-83 new cases of COVID-19 were reported this afternoon in a joint statement by Adrian Dix, B.C. Minister of Health, and Dr. Rka Gustafson, B.C.'s deputy provincial health officer.Three of thos...

Aug 18, 2020

B.C. State of emergency extended to September 1st

VICTORIA-The Province is once again extending it's provincial state of emergency.The extension allows, B.C. Minister of Public Safety, Mike Farnworth to continue to use extraordinary powers under the ...

Aug 18, 2020

B.C. paramedics respond to increase in drowning or near drowning calls this summer

VANCOUVER-The weather was warm this past weekend, making it that much more tempting to hit the water, and according to a tweet from Emergency Health Services BC, this past weekend it was a busy one ac...

Aug 18, 2020

Community in mourning: UNBC Chancellor, Joseph Gosnell dies

PRINCE GEORGE-University of Northern British Columbia's seventh Chancellor, Joseph Gosnell, Sr. has died.A release by the northern university says that the UNBC "community is mourning." Gosnell died i...

Aug 18, 2020

Nisga'a Chief who led nation to landmark treaty, Joe Gosnell, dies of cancer

NEW AIYANSH, B.C. - Joe Gosnell, a renowned treaty negotiator, politician and leader of the Nisga'a Nation, has died at the age of 85. A statement from the Nisga'a Lisims government of northwestern Br...

Aug 18, 2020