Category Archives: British Columbia
Canucks' draft pick Quinn Hughes returning to University of Michigan
Vancouver hockey fans will have to wait to see the Canucks’ top pick in this year’s NHL draft play with the team. Defenceman Quinn Hughes has decided to return to the University of Michiga...
Jul 28, 2018
B.C. parents urged to check immunization records after Chinese vaccine recall
VANCOUVER - Health authorities in British Columbia are urging parents of toddlers who were vaccinated in parts of China last year to check their records for a recalled vaccine. The BC Centre for Disea...
Jul 28, 2018
New plaque in Lytton, B.C., to honour early Chinese-Canadian settlers
LYTTON, B.C. - Chinese settlers to British Columbia’s Fraser Canyon are being honoured for the role they played in the province’s history with a commemorative plaque unveiled in the town o...
Jul 28, 2018
B.C. government protects pension money at Catalyst Paper operations
VICTORIA - Looming forest industry tariff increases and deteriorating trade relations between Canada and United States prompted British Columbia’s government to protect the pensions of retirees ...
Jul 27, 2018
Cda-US negotiators tussle over updating Columbia River Treaty
Canadian negotiators are not budging on a request by their American counterparts to reduce an electricity entitlement under a treaty that the United States says is worth as much as $200 million a year...
Jul 27, 2018
BC Summer Games athletes report inappropriate touching at dance
VICTORIA - Police and the BC Games Society are investigating allegations of inappropriate touching involving teenaged athletes who were part of the BC Summer Games that ended Sunday on Vancouver Islan...
Jul 27, 2018
Thieves in B.C. use sport utility vehicle to ram through mall and steal jewelry
VERNON, B.C. - A pair of robbers used a sport utility vehicle to smash their way into a jewelry store in a mall in Vernon, B.C. Police say mall surveillance video shows the Toyota FJ Cruiser ramming t...
Jul 27, 2018
Trans Mountain pipeline work to resume in August: Kinder Morgan Canada boss
EDMONTON - The head of Kinder Morgan Canada says work is to resume next month to prepare a route for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Ian Anderson says the company will secure, survey and prepar...
Jul 27, 2018
Environment Canada issues air quality statements, heat warnings for most of B.C.
VANCOUVER - Environment Canada has issued a slew of air quality alerts as wildfires continue to burn in British Columbia, at the same time as a heat wave is striking the coast. While the largest wildf...
Jul 26, 2018
B.C. wildlife tour company charged after allegedly luring bears with food
BLUE RIVER, B.C. - A wildlife tour company in Blue River, B.C., is facing charges for allegedly putting food out to attract bears. Chris Doyle, deputy chief of the B.C. Conservation Officer Service, s...
Jul 26, 2018