Category Archives: British Columbia

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...

VANCOUVER - Federal crews are keeping an eye on a 30,000-litre fuel spill from a navy ship in the waters between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. HMCS Calgary was sailing near the Georgia Stra...

VANCOUVER - For 10-year-old Isabelle Smit, finding new blood relatives through a long-shot DNA drive has been like a game of Connect the Dots. Smit, who was adopted as an infant from Chongqing, China,...

VICTORIA - The operators of a small British Columbia winery that landed a big contract to be the official wine of the National Hockey League’s Calgary Flames are relieved their Cabernet Merlot a...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - An aircraft carrying 10 people slid off an airport runway Friday in Abbotsford, B.C. Airport general manager Parm Sidhu said officials were trying to confirm what happened but no on...