Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - Several conservation groups say the federal government’s failure to issue an emergency order reducing threats to endangered orcas off the B.C. coast ahead of fishing and whale-watchi...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A police officer in Abbotsford, B.C., has been sentenced after pleading guilty to a breach of trust charge. The Abbotsford Police Department says in a statement that Const. Christop...

PRINCE GEORGE- It seems the Ministry of Health has listened to those who were concerned about their hyphenated names not being allowed on the new BC Services card. The new BC Services card requires Br...

VERNON, B.C. - Some woodpeckers in British Columbia appear to have a taste for the arts, but their efforts to make a local theatre their home are not winning rave reviews. The birds are northern flick...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Park Board is appealing a court decision that determined it didn’t have the authority to ban whales, dolphins and porpoises at the city’s aquarium. A B.C. Supreme...

VANCOUVER - Sitting in a doctor’s waiting room in Vancouver, Patricia Louie saw posters that only featured white and light skin-toned people depicted as patients. She wondered if medical textboo...

VICTORIA – Hydro rates in British Columbia will increase three percent in April after the province’s independent energy regulator overruled a government promise to freeze rates for one yea...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia bride has been ordered to pay more than $100,000 to a wedding photographer for unleashing an online torrent of defamatory comments that eventually destroyed the business...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s promised plan to fight poverty is taking longer to introduce than originally forecast, says the minister in charge of poverty reduction. Shane Simpson announced pla...

VANCOUVER - By stopping the sale of brands tied to gun manufacturing, the chief executive of Mountain Equipment Co-op says the company can play a role in advancing discussions around gun control. Davi...