Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - Vi Roden said she reads an average of 50 books a year, attends history lectures at her local seniors centre, and does yoga twice a week. She's 101, and still lives in her own condo in West...

The Canadian Press has spent the past month interviewing some of Canada's more than 11,000 centenarians and their families. These are some of their stories. 'THEY HAD TO FLY IN DOCTORS TO NAIROBI' Bil...

LILLOOET - The British Columbia Wildfire Service says its crews are responding to a 30-hectare wildfire billowing smoke over Highway 99 north of Lillooet. The agency says on Facebook that the Tiffen C...

FREDERICTON - A six-year analysis of more than 10,000 Canadian drivers involved in motor vehicle collisions suggests cannabis has edged out alcohol as the most common impairing substance detected thro...

TERRACE - A British Columbia First Nation has agreed to a draft treaty with the federal and provincial governments that would give it more than 38,000 hectares of land in the province's northwest. The...

CHILLIWACK, B.C. - Thousands of families in British Columbia can expect to see increased financial support in their bank accounts starting by mid-July. B.C. Premier David Eby says about 340,000 famili...

VICTORIA - B.C. Ombudsperson Jay Chalke says dozens of public service jobs meant to help develop the careers of public servants wrongfully went to government appointees over a 10-year period. In a rep...

KELOWNA, B.C. - Fission Uranium Corp. has signed a deal to be acquired by Australian company Paladin Energy Ltd. in an all-stock agreement valued at about $1.1 billion. Under the proposal, Fission sha...

VANCOUVER - Racers took to the water for what organizers say is North America's largest dragon boat festival in Vancouver. More than 6,000 racers and 250 entries from across North America and Australi...

OTTAWA - As debate around the Liberals' drug policy dominated parts of the spring House of Commons sitting, the Conservatives are offering little insight into what approach they would take when it com...