Category Archives: British Columbia

Workers escorted away during Border Services probe at Vancouver horse track
VANCOUVER - Several people were removed form a Vancouver horse racing track this week as part of an investigation by the Canada Border Services Agency. Border services agents arrived at...
Aug 20, 2019

Court approves release of video, affidavits ahead of Huawei executive's trial
VANCOUVER - A senior B.C. Supreme Court judge has agreed with what she calls a "somewhat unusual" request to provide documents and a video directly to media ahead of an extradition hearing for Hu...
Aug 20, 2019

RCMP believe 'criminality' involved as bodies found of two men from Surrey, B.C.
ASHCROFT, B.C. - The RCMP say the bodies of two men found Saturday in central British Columbia have been identified as two individuals from Surrey who were reported missing in mid-July. The bodie...
Aug 20, 2019

$50,000 grant for study into options for better water service on Salt Spring Island
VICTORIA- The BC government has given a $50,000 grant to the Capital Regional District to study options to help move Salt Spring Islanders towards better water service.Currently the island's public wa...
Aug 19, 2019 ID 2024122 © Mark Hryciw | Dreamstime.com

Turtles, butterflies and foxes: Captive breeding for endangered species growing
LANGLEY, B.C. - The turtle in my hand dangles its churning feet as I set it down. It touches its first dirt and immediately, unerringly, points toward shore and races as fast as a turtle can to the wa...
Aug 19, 2019

Entrepreneurs turning beer byproduct into bread, cookies and profits
VANCOUVER - When Jeff Dornan opened a brewery six years ago, he knew the brewing process would produce hundreds of kilograms of spent grain, and he had a plan for it. Rather than pay to dump it i...
Aug 18, 2019

Sea-to-Sky Gondola in British Columbia likely out of commission until 2020
SQUAMISH, B.C. - The operators of the Sea-to-Sky Gondola say the popular tourist attraction near Squamish, B.C., likely won't reopen until early next spring. In a message on the company...
Aug 17, 2019

Canada sending plane to Uganda to help with peacekeeping in Africa
VANCOUVER - A Canadian Forces Hercules plane will be sent to Uganda to take part in a United Nations peacekeeping mission during the next 12 months, transporting troops, equipment and s...
Aug 17, 2019

Hunky Bill, B.C. perogy pioneer, restaurateur, PNE mainstay, dies at 88
VANCOUVER - Bill Konyk, a legendary Vancouver businessman who fought a human rights battle to maintain his nickname Hunky Bill, has died. He was 88. His youngest son, Mark Konyk, says his da...
Aug 16, 2019

Behavioural analysis can help answer the 'why' in B.C. murders: expert
VANCOUVER - A criminal profiler says investigators should find clues about why two men might have killed three people in northern British Columbia and whether there was a leader and a follower. Jim Va...
Aug 15, 2019