Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - Hurricane-force winds of up to 159 km/h have slammed into parts of the British Columbia Coast as a massive storm swirling off Vancouver Island severed highways and cut power to about 225,0...

VANCOUVER - The union representing port supervisors in British Columbia is formally challenging the legal and constitutional authority of the federal labour minister to order them back to work. In a l...

TORONTO - The Writers' Trust of Canada is set to hand out seven awards and more than $330,000 in prize money at its annual awards bash tonight. Prizes include outstanding debut book by an LGBTQ2S+ eme...

VANCOUVER - The Transportation Safety Board says it's investigating after a Boeing 767 cargo jet went off a runway at Vancouver International Airport. The airport says the Cargojet flight went off the...

A series of meteorological terms associated with extreme weather have become popularized in recent years. Here's how some of them are defined by the American Meteorological Society: BOMB CYCLONE A sto...

VANCOUVER - The use of terms including "atmospheric rivers" and "bomb cyclones" to describe weather phenomena has moved out of scientific journals and into the mainstream in recent years, but meteorol...

OTTAWA - The Canada Border Services Agency says it will be adjusting hours at 35 land ports of entry in January -- a move it says will allow it to deploy officers at busier land crossings. Only one cr...

VICTORIA - There's been a near total shakeup of British Columbia's government cabinet, with few ministers retaining their jobs and some longtime backbenchers and newly elected members moving in. Here ...

SURREY - Mounties in Surrey, B.C., say they are investigating a fiery overnight crash that killed two people and caused a partial shutdown of Highway 99. RCMP say officers responded to a report of a v...

VANCOUVER - Environment Canada is warning about an intensifying storm that is expected to bring powerful winds to Vancouver Island and the British Columbia coast this week. Matt MacDonald, the lead fo...