Category Archives: British Columbia

VICTORIA - Workers at a renowned British Columbia hotel have served strike notice in what is the latest in a series of labour actions taken as the province prepares to welcome World Cup travellers lat...

CALGARY - Premiers, energy ministers, CEOs and a throng of international visitors are poised to descend on Calgary next week, when the annual Global Energy Show kicks off against a vastly different ba...

VICTORIA - The B.C. city of Penticton will be representing municipalities in a class-action lawsuit against the makers of so-called "forever chemicals" for contaminating drinking-water systems. The B....

OTTAWA - Slashing municipal development charges could help spur building in some of Canada's most expensive markets but those cuts wouldn't be enough to fix the affordability gap on their own, accordi...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Securities Commission says it has paid out $25,000 in its first whistleblower award. The commission says in a news release that the information contributed to an ongoi...

NANAIMO - Police on Vancouver Island say three men and three women have been arrested after multiple police vehicles were damaged in the pursuit of a stolen truck that went on for more than 100 kilome...

VICTORIA - BC Ferries has become the latest transportation service provider to levy a fuel surcharge in the wake of high oil prices triggered by conflict in the Middle East. The operator says in a sta...

SQUAMISH - Mounties in Squamish, B.C., say the bodies of two people who went missing while paddleboarding on Browning Lake in Murrin Provincial Park last weekend have been found. The Sea to Sky RCMP s...

WILLIAMS LAKE - The Cariboo Regional District has issued an evacuation alert for properties due an out of control wildfire. The notice says the alert covers 22 parcels and nearly 180 square kilometres...

Two Mounties at a B.C. Supreme Court murder trial told a jury that a "dishevelled" man appeared on a forest-service road as a bloodstained car was being towed away and told the officers he'd murdered ...