Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - One of the contenders vying to lead British Columbia’s Liberal party won’t have the backing of 1,349 prospective members who were disqualified from voting because of incomplete...

VICTORIA - Former British Columbia premier Dave Barrett, the scrappy but always smiling leader of the province’s first New Democrat government, has died in Victoria. He was 87 years old. Barrett...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s premier says his government is trying to protect the province, not be provocative, over a proposed ban on an increase of diluted bitumen shipped from the west coas...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia has surpassed Ontario as Canada’s top locale for film and television production for the first time, a development that industry experts largely credit to the rise of...

OTTAWA - A Supreme Court of Canada decision has moved a British Columbia First Nation a big step closer to receiving financial compensation for the loss of its traditional lands in the 19th century. I...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has found a former RCMP officer guilty of five counts of indecently assaulting five boys in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Alan Davidson was found not...

VANCOUVER - A new study shows illicit opioid users in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside are increasingly testing positive for the potent painkiller fentanyl, which was linked to the majority of fata...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says her government is suspending talks with British Columbia on the purchase of electricity from the western province. It’s the first step in Alberta...

VANCOUVER - Local politicians in British Columbia are calling for an overhaul of the housing system with significant tax and regulatory changes in order to bring skyrocketing real estate and rental pr...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - British Columbia’s police watchdog has cleared officers of wrongdoing after a man suspected of fatally shooting a constable was injured during his arrest. Const. John Davidson...