Category Archives: British Columbia

Fine Increase For Off-Road Vehicles To Protect Sensitive Habitats
VICTORIA – The Province has introduced an increase in fines for improper use of off-road vehicles and snowmobiles. Those who take their off-road vehicles into sensitive habitats, such as all BC ...
Dec 04, 2018

B.C. boy finds syringe, glue stored in board game purchased at thrift shop
PITT MEADOWS, B.C. - A father in Pitt Meadows, B.C., says the last thing his family expected to find inside a second-hand board game was a syringe and toxic glue. Mitch Selman says his six-year-old so...
Dec 04, 2018

13 British Columbia chinook salmon populations in decline: scientists
Nearly half of southern British Columbia’s chinook salmon populations are in decline, according to a science committee that monitors the health of wildlife populations. The Committee on the Stat...
Dec 04, 2018

Bear cub, rescued near mother's body, dies unexpectedly in wildlife refuge
TOFINO, B.C. - A British Columbia wildlife refuge says staff are upset and shocked after a bear cub that was rescued near his mother’s dead body this spring died unexpectedly in his enclosure. T...
Dec 04, 2018

Newly discovered cave in B.C. park might be the largest in Canada
VANCOUVER - A newly discovered cave in a remote valley in British Columbia’s Wells Gray Provincial Park might just be the country’s largest. The feature was spotted by a helicopter crew fr...
Dec 03, 2018
B.C. First Nation to present oral evidence about Trans Mountain expansion impact
NANAIMO, B.C. - The Tsleil-Waututh Nation will be presenting Indigenous oral traditional evidence to the National Energy Board at a hearing in Nanaimo, B.C. A news release says the board is hearing ne...
Dec 03, 2018

Additional Safety For Minors On Party Buses
BRITISH COLUMBIA – Extra protection for minors on party buses has been put in place by the BC government as of December 1st. Operators are now required to obtain consent forms from parents and g...
Dec 02, 2018
Video of sexual relations can be used at grievance in fire department firings
VANCOUVER - Two employees of the fire department in Vernon, B.C., are battling to keep their jobs after a videotape showed them having sexual relations in the interim fire chief’s office. The pa...
Nov 30, 2018

Otter full on prized fish gets away as security tightened at Vancouver garden
VANCOUVER - An otter that dined on prized fish at a classical Chinese garden in downtown Vancouver seems to have dashed as the facility takes steps to ensure the unwelcome critter doesn’t come b...
Nov 29, 2018

British Columbia takes steps to try and fill abandoned Greyhound routes
VICTORIA – The B.C. government is looking for operators to take over eight bus routes that remain without service since Greyhound pulled out of the province on Oct. 31. The Ministry of Transport...
Nov 29, 2018