Category Archives: British Columbia

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. - Police say a woman in northeastern British Columbia who told an officer she couldn't remember her name during a traffic stop has been arrested after an untraceable "ghost gun" wa...

VICTORIA - A maximum 20-per-cent home-flipping tax is among a number of new regulations coming into effect in British Columbia starting Jan. 1. The previously announced tax, to be levied against non-e...

HALIFAX - For more than 150 years, the stout and tidy Walton Harbour lighthouse in Nova Scotia has stood watch from a cliff overlooking the upper Bay of Fundy. But in recent years, coastal erosion lef...

VANCOUVER - A California-based HR tech company says it will acquire a Vancouver-based bookkeeping service that abruptly halted operations last week. Bench Accounting announced its sudden closure on Fr...

SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia's police watchdog is seeking witnesses after a man was arrested for urinating on an RCMP station then found to have sustained an injury. The Independent Investigations ...

VANCOUVER - Police on Vancouver Island say an early morning report of a car in a ditch took a turn when they discovered the driver had been shot multiple times. West Shore RCMP say officers were respo...

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - Telecom giant Rogers Communications says it has activated five new cellular towers along British Columbia's Highway of Tears, marking the "substantial completion" of efforts to i...

VANCOUVER - Inland ferry services that are crucial to several small communities in southeast British Columbia face being further cut from today as a labour dispute on Kootenay Lake escalates. The West...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver's Joe Average was an artist, advocate and activist whose bright, multicoloured images were as multi-faceted as his existence. But his sister Karin Carson says she used to giggle ...

PORT MOODY, B.C. - A man has been charged with allegedly assaulting a nurse at a Metro Vancouver hospital in an incident police say left her seriously injured last month. Police in Port Moody say a ch...