Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - A unique and exotic tropical plant, acclaimed for its size and abhorred for its smell, is blooming at a Vancouver conservatory. A news release from the Vancouver Park Board says the titan ...

SIDNEY, B.C. - The passenger ferry departs the pier at the north end of Beacon Avenue in Sidney, B.C., bound for the long, thin sandbar that marks Sidney Spit. The voyage on board the 15-metre catamar...

SURREY, B.C. - A Surrey woman says she wants to help educate the public about racism after a member of her townhouse complex’s staff requested her family show ID when they were using the pool. G...

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - The Wood Innovation Research Lab in Prince George, B.C., appears to be nothing more than a modern cedar and black-metal building, but look past the cladding and you’ll find...

CLEARWATER, B.C. - An Indigenous political activist was briefly detained Saturday following a Trans Mountain pipeline protest in British Columbia’s North Thompson Provincial Park. Kanahus Manuel...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Real Estate Association says tighter mortgage rules and lower demand are bringing the provincial housing market into balance. The association says 7,884 units were sol...

VANCOUVER - Indigenous and civil rights activists seeking an investigation of the Vancouver Police Department’s use of random street checks want to amend their complaint based on new data showin...

VICTORIA – Groups that officially represent the Yes and No sides on electoral reform in British Columbia have been selected before a referendum this fall. Elections BC says Vote PR BC will be th...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s Conservation Officer Service is investigating allegations a Vancouver-area family feed a mother black bear and her cub. Conservation Officer Lonnie Schoenthal says...

VANCOUVER - New regulations to protect whales, dolphins and porpoises are in effect for all coasts in Canada as the Department of Fisheries and Oceans works to ensure more officers and patrol vessels ...