Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - A radical treatment that provides daily doses of alcohol to people struggling with problem drinking in several Canadian cities is getting attention from other countries wanting to emulate ...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Meeting a stranger to complete an online deal can feel risky, even for a veteran police officer. Sgt. Judy Bird knows first-hand about the “sketchy” feeling that can com...

VANCOUVER - The SPCA says staff members at a Vancouver Island branch have endured withering public criticism after arranging the adoption of a potbellied pig that was later butchered by its new owner....

SURREY, B.C. - A man at the centre of a controversy over Sikh separatism that is hounding the prime minister says he has worked with politicians from a number of parties since he was released from pri...

VANCOUVER - Amie Peacock describes her mother as “a social butterfly,” but when she came to visit her in Vancouver from the Philippines a lack of friends and a language barrier left her mi...

SHAWNIGAN LAKE – Residents of Shawnigan Lake are invited to attend the Shawnigan Residents Association’s (SRA) general meeting this Thursday. The meeting will be held in the Hugh Wilkinson...

VANCOUVER - The head of Mountain Equipment Co-op says the company isn’t rushing to make a decision about its supply chain after consumers on social media connected brands sold at its stores to a...

VANCOUVER - A port worker says he suspected large plumes of oil that were shining on the surface of the water in Vancouver’s harbour nearly three years ago was bunker fuel, based on the smell. A...

HOPE, B.C. - Graham Zillwood has witnessed numerous crashes outside his front window on a notorious stretch of British Columbia’s Coquihalla Highway, but nothing like the chain-reaction crash Su...

VICTORIA – The British Columbia government has appointed a 12-member task force of industry, Indigenous and labour leaders to measure the current state the provincial mining industry and to ensu...