Category Archives: British Columbia

As the female orca known as Tahlequah once again carries the body of a dead calf through waters near Vancouver Island, for the second time in seven years, researcher Barbara J. King says there's no mi...

OTTAWA - Canadian colleges and universities are responding to a cash crunch brought on by Ottawa's cut to international student permits with layoffs, hiring freezes and service reductions, say people ...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - Police are on the lookout after a large concrete sculpture of a bear weighing about 45 kilograms was stolen from a porch of a home in Port Coquitlam, B.C. Mounties say the sculpture ...

VANCOUVER - A residential market sales forecast by Greater Vancouver Realtors says the impact of possible tariffs from the United States would likely be short-lived. The annual report from the associa...

VANCOUVER - Below-seasonal temperatures are expected in parts of British Columbia this weekend, a year after a bitter cold snap that sent wind-chill temperatures plummeting to -20 C in Metro Vancouver...

VICTORIA - A mother killer whale whose calf died more than two weeks ago has recently been spotted still carrying the newborn's carcass in waters off Victoria. The Center for Whale Research says in a ...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Coastal Health authority says it has changed the name of a long-term care home that was named after George Pearson, a B.C. politician who stoked anti-Japanese sentiment durin...

SECHELT, B.C. - The federal government is providing $117 million to help solve what it describes as the "heightening water crisis" due to drought on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, where the Sechel...

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - Three men from Port Alberni, B.C., have been charged with sexual offences on minors, including trafficking of youth under 18 years old. RCMP say its general investigations unit st...

PRINCE GEORGE - Impaired drivers kept BC Highway Patrol busy over the holiday season.So busy that they took an average of 8.61 impaired drivers off the road every day in December. That's an impaired d...