Category Archives: British Columbia
Work underway to release fuel trapped in barge at Haida Gwaii
QUEEN CHARLOTTE, B.C. - The Canadian Coast Guard says crews are working carefully to release gas that accumulated inside a barge carrying a fishing lodge that beached after it broke away from its anch...
Sep 11, 2018
B.C. court orders bus company to rethink rejection of anti-abortion ads
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Appeal Court has overturned a decision by Metro Vancouver’s transit authority that refused advertising space to an anti-abortion education group on its buses. Th...
Sep 11, 2018

Immigration fuelling French-immersion demand as provinces vie for teachers
VANCOUVER - Back-to-school buzz only led to worry for a Vancouver father fretting about his daughter’s chances of getting into French immersion - a year before she starts kindergarten. Prokopi K...
Sep 11, 2018

UBCM And BC Reaffirm Commitment To Reconciliation
WHISTLER – From the annual Union of BC Municipalities convention, the Province and the union will continue to work together toward reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. The renewed memorandum ...
Sep 10, 2018

International Grandparents Day
PRINCE GEORGE – Parent Support Services is marking the second Sunday in September as a day to celebrate all grandparents, and shine a spotlight on grandparents who are raising their grandchildre...
Sep 07, 2018
Vancouver's short-term rental listings drop by half after new rules introduced
VANCOUVER - The City of Vancouver says the number of short-term rentals listed online has dropped by almost half since new rules came into effect requiring operators to have a business licence. There ...
Sep 05, 2018
B.C. technology education program aims to shrink industry's diversity gaps
A technology education program officially launching in the fall at the University of Victoria in British Columbia hopes to address a gap in the industry with a novel approach for students. HighTechU i...
Sep 03, 2018
B.C. students learning for 'real life' but teachers say reality needs funding
VANCOUVER - Waking up for school won’t be the only reality facing British Columbia students entering their senior high school years as ongoing curriculum changes aimed at connecting them to real...
Sep 03, 2018

Large wildfire in northwest B.C. not expected to grow further: wildfire service
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - The BC Wildfire Service says precipitation and favourable weather have allowed it to contain one of the province’s largest active wildfires, more than a month after it was ...
Sep 02, 2018

Evacuation Alert Rescinded
FORT ST. JAMES – The District of Fort St. James has been advised, as of 12 pm Sunday, that the imminent danger due to the Shovel Lake Fire to life and property for residents has diminished at th...
Sep 02, 2018