Category Archives: British Columbia

SURREY, B.C. - The Crown prosecution service says a former Vancouver police detective who worked on the force’s counter-exploitation unit has been sentenced to 20 months in jail after kissing a ...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for the former leader of a religious sect who was acquitted of taking a 15-year-old girl across the U.S. border for a sexual pu...

VANCOUVER - The Canadian Press reported in a story about wildfires in British Columbia on Aug. 20 that a senior scientist at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control said pregnant women should take precaut...

VANCOUVER - Yousif Attia wasn’t exactly a typical teenager. He had always been fascinated by birds, and he wanted to participate in a local Christmas bird count - an annual event where people ac...

VANCOUVER - Thick smoke blanketing British Columbia communities far from any flames - including Vancouver where the haze Monday obscured the city’s mountain views - could be particularly harmful...

LANGLEY, BRITISH COLUMBIA, B.C. - The mother of a seven-year-old girl from Langley, B.C., has been charged with second-degree murder in the child’s death. The Integrated Homicide Investigation T...

MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. - Several pipeline protesters were released from a British Columbia jail on Sunday, a few days before their weeklong sentences were set to end. Seven protesters in all were sentenced...

PENTICTON, B.C. - Heavy smoke and poor air quality due to wildfires burning throughout the province have forced officials in British Columbia’s Central Okanagan region to cancel two triathlons. ...

JASPER, Alta. - Smoke from wildfires that’s blanketing parts of Alberta does more than just irritate the eyes and throats of visitors to the province’s mountain parks - it obscures the spe...

FORT FRASER, B.C. - A fragmented system that makes British Columbia responsible for regional districts but gives the federal government authority for First Nations is hampering Indigenous groups in th...