Category Archives: British Columbia

NEW WESTMINSTER-The province is providing $500,000 to the Seniors Services Society to help link vulnerable seniors to vital mental health and addictions services.The funding was announced on June 1st ...

VICTORIA - The sign that welcomes anglers to Campbell River, B.C., "The Salmon Capital of the World," isn't going anywhere this summer despite tough, new federal catch restrictions protecting&nbs...

VANCOUVER - Canada's minister of gender equality has announced a new initiative aimed at creating a sustainable model to fund women's rights organizations in developing countr...

VANCOUVER - Canadian and American scientists will study why an unusually high number of dead grey whales are washing ashore on the west coast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says ...

BRITISH COLUMBIA- The BC Wildfire Service is sending additional personnel to Alberta to help respond to an increasingly challenging wildfire situation.137 personnel will be deployed tomorrow (June 3) ...

BURNABY, B.C. - The mayor of Burnaby, B.C., says he met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss his concerns about the risk of a fire at a tank farm in his city, which would be the ter...

VANCOUVER - As wildfires raged near the central British Columbia community of Lac la Hache, emergency officials struggled to transmit life-saving information to residents. Slow and spotty internet mea...

VANCOUVER - A rare white killer whale has been spotted off the coast of British Columbia. Jared Towers, an orca ecologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, says the young transient killer whale w...

VANCOUVER - Experts say fewer people with poor eyesight are learning to read braille in North America, partly because audio books and voice technology are supplanting the written word. ...

VANCOUVER - Life expectancy rates in Canada have stopped increasing for the first time in four decades, says a Statistics Canada report that blames opioid-related overdoses for deaths i...