Category Archives: British Columbia

Former BC Liberal MLA Abbott named to province's First Nations treaty commission
VICTORIA - A former longtime British Columbia legislator has been appointed to the province's independent facilitating body for treaty negotiations on First Nations rights and title. George Abbott, wh...
Feb 19, 2025

B.C. tree fruit growers get new $10M fund from the province
VANCOUVER - British Columbia has launched a new $10 million fund to help tree fruit farmers facing proposed U.S. tariffs on the heels of years of devastatingly low crop yields. A statement from the Mi...
Feb 19, 2025

Old-growth logging was 'goal' of Interfor: B.C. Forest Appeals Commission decision
British Columbia's Forest Appeals Commission has upheld a finding that forestry giant Interfor violated provincial legislation when it harvested cut blocks that overlapped with proposed old-growth man...
Feb 19, 2025

NewsAlert: B.C. ends take-home safer supply for drug users to stop diversion
VICTORIA - British Columbia's health minister has announced that the province is changing its safer-supply anti-addiction program to a witnessed model, in which users will be watched as they consume t...
Feb 19, 2025

RCMP conduct authority lawyer calls move to replace board 'desperate' legal manoeuvre
A lawyer for three British Columbia RCMP members facing dismissal over alleged racist group chats told a police conduct board panel that they should be replaced over "real or perceived" bias against t...
Feb 19, 2025

Fire-ravaged Lytton, B.C., getting 'community hub' with museum, pool, market space
LYTTON, B.C. - The federal government is promising more than $25 million to help build a new "community hub" in the Village of Lytton years after much of the B.C. town was wiped out by fire. A stateme...
Feb 19, 2025

Pounding rain, damaging winds battering parts of B.C. through Wednesday
VANCOUVER - Heavy rain and strong winds are pummeling parts of British Columbia. Environment Canada has issued warnings for much of Vancouver Island, Howe Sound, the Sunshine Coast and eastern and nor...
Feb 19, 2025

In good news for J-pod, killer whale calf is a female
VANCOUVER - The Centre for Whale Research says it has confirmed a new killer whale calf in a pod of endangered orcas that live off southwest British Columbia is female. It's a piece of good news for J...
Feb 19, 2025

Vancouver police Chief Adam Palmer will retire in April after a decade at the helm
VANCOUVER - Vancouver Chief Const. Adam Palmer says he will retire at the end of April after 37 years with the department. Palmer announced his decision while standing next to Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim ...
Feb 18, 2025

Here's the latest on the crash of a Delta plane at Toronto's Pearson airport
A Delta Air Lines plane heading from Minneapolis to Toronto crashed and flipped on the tarmac at Pearson airport on Monday afternoon, injuring multiple passengers. Here's the latest on the crash after...
Feb 18, 2025