Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C. university drops mandatory ban on sex outside of heterosexual marriage
LANGLEY, B.C. - A Christian university in British Columbia will no longer require students to adhere to a covenant forbidding sex outside of heterosexual marriage. The board of governors at Trinity We...
Aug 14, 2018
Wildfire smoke blankets B.C. and Alberta, prompting air quality advisories
VANCOUVER - Smoke from British Columbia wildfires blanketed part of western Canada from Vancouver Island to central Alberta on Tuesday, prompting air quality advisories in both provinces. While much o...
Aug 14, 2018

Plaque replacing Sir John A. Macdonald statue defaced, Victoria keeping monument
VICTORIA - An offer from Ontario to find a new home for a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald has been declined by the city of Victoria. Mayor Lisa Helps says the city is carefully storing the statue of C...
Aug 14, 2018

Canadian Armed Forces to help as nearly 600 wildfires burn across B.C.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The federal government is offering support with air power and Canadian Armed Forces troops in British Columbia as nearly 600 wildfires burn across the province, displacing thousands o...
Aug 13, 2018
Husband escapes, wife missing after car swept off roadway in B.C. mudslide
CACHE CREEK, B.C. - Search crews are looking for a woman who was inside a vintage convertible that was swept off a highway in a mudslide in the province’s Interior on Saturday. RCMP Sgt. Janelle...
Aug 13, 2018

Pipeline protesters practise resisting police at Camp Cloud outside tank farm
VANCOUVER - Pipeline protesters who were ordered to take down their camp outside a Kinder Morgan terminal in Burnaby, B.C., are instead preparing to tie themselves to its structures in anticipation of...
Aug 13, 2018

Young West Coast orca in a tough slog to keep up with her pod: experts
VANCOUVER - A wildlife biologist says an ailing female killer whale off the West Coast of Washington state is “slogging along” with her pod, but is at times unable to keep up. A veterinari...
Aug 13, 2018
North-central B.C. communities under expanded evacuation orders and alerts
The board chair of the Bulkley-Nechako region has had a long week and expects the next one will not be any better, as more evacuation orders and alerts are in effect for an area of north-central Briti...
Aug 13, 2018
Five people sent to hospital after crash at Abbotsford, B.C., airport
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Five people are in hospital, including one in critical condition, after a 1930s era biplane crashed shortly after take off Saturday at the Abbotsford International Airport in Britis...
Aug 12, 2018
Five people sent to hospital after crash at Abbotsford, B.C., airport
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Five people are in hospital, including one in critical condition, after a 1930’s era biplane crashed shortly after take off Saturday at the Abbotsford International Airport in...
Aug 12, 2018