Category Archives: British Columbia
AFN vote against northern pipeline shows there are better ideas to move oil, Dix says
VICTORIA - British Columbia's energy minister says a vote from chiefs at the Assembly of First Nations gathering in Ottawa to uphold the oil tanker ban is more support for the provincial argument that...
Dec 02, 2025
Miller says government needs to start Indigenous consultation on B.C. pipeline
OTTAWA - Heritage Minister Marc Miller says his government needs to "sit down and start working now" on consultation with Indigenous communities and stakeholders about a possible new pipeline in B.C. ...
Dec 02, 2025
Long-term care, assisted living workers reach transition agreement with B.C.
VICTORIA - British Columbia Health Minister Josie Osborne says a new agreement will make thousands of health care workers eligible for collective bargaining again, but it will cost the province an add...
Dec 01, 2025
Police release victim's identity in fatal shooting in Surrey, B.C.
SURREY - Police have identified the man killed in a late-night shooting in Surrey, B.C., last week, in the hope of advancing the investigation into the death. Homicide investigators say 26-year-old Ja...
Dec 01, 2025
Generations of Indigenous leaders brace for a new battle over another pipeline
OTTAWA - For some First Nations leaders, the prospect of conflict with provincial and federal governments over plans to send another pipeline to the B.C. coast brings back vivid memories of years past...
Dec 01, 2025
B.C. community holds vigil to mourn deaths, losses in deadly Hong Kong fire
VANCOUVER - Family members of more than 150 people who died when seven highrises burned in Hong Kong last week "deserve the truth," said Phoebe Wong, who attended a memorial in Vancouver late Sunday f...
Dec 01, 2025
Woman charged in alleged breach of Surrey, B.C., hospital's neonatal care unit
SURREY - A 35-year-old woman has been arrested and charged in connection to a breach in the Surrey, B.C., hospital neonatal intensive care unit in October. The Surrey Police Service said Monday that L...
Dec 01, 2025
Police increase presence after threat made against three Nanaimo, B.C., schools
NANAIMO - Police in Nanaimo, B.C., are stepping up their presence at three local high schools after receiving what what's described as an "unspecified threat." RCMP say in a news release that there wi...
Dec 01, 2025
Snowfall, freezing rain warnings issued for B.C.'s central Interior
WILLIAMS LAKE - Parts of the British Columbia Interior are in for a blast of wintry weather with freezing rain and snow of up to 15 centimetres. Environment Canada has issued the advisories covering p...
Dec 01, 2025
Charity celebrates milestone as Vancouver Island marmots rebound to 427 in wild
VANCOUVER - A foundation trying to save a critically endangered species is celebrating a marmot milestone. The Marmot Recovery Foundation announced on its social media page that the population of the ...
Nov 30, 2025