Category Archives: British Columbia

SMITHERS – Acquiring a permit to cut free firewood on Crown land can now be done online. The permit does not have an application fee or any charges for the wood. Applicants must remember to carr...

VANCOUVER - An apartment fire in North Vancouver has killed two people and sent a dozen to hospital for treatment of various injuries. The victims were trapped when the blaze tore through one of four ...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has launched a two-phase review of BC Hydro in an effort to find cost savings and direction for the Crown utility. The first part of the review is expected t...

DELTA, B.C. - Jan Robson walks through the five-bedroom house on a country road in Delta, B.C., greeting its feathered tenants one by one. Simon and Garfunkel are about to move out - they’ve bee...

VICTORIA - A ban on the practice of so-called conversion therapy in Vancouver sends a powerful message of rejection for controversial “pray the gay away” treatments, say advocates and expe...

COQUITLAM – The Ministry of Health is providing $1.4 million to support senior abuse awareness and prevention. The funding comes in advance of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, on Friday, June 15...

VICTORIA – The Province is now accepting applications from licensed child care providers to become affordable universal child care pilot sites. The new sites will run from September 1st of this ...

VICTORIA - A pod of killer whales made a rare appearance in Victoria’s Inner Harbour Thursday, frolicking not far from the British Columbia legislature. The group of four or five orcas, includin...

VICTORIA - As the years stretched into decades with no arrests after his sister’s body was found in Washington state, it was becoming hard for John Van Cuylenborg of Victoria, B.C., to maintain ...

VANCOUVER - Police in Washington state used a controversial new investigative technique they say helped them solve the murder of Victoria-area resident Tanya Van Cuylenborg, who was killed more than 3...