Category Archives: British Columbia

NORTHERN B.C.- The Province has recruited 50 new teachers to work in rural and remote communities through their new hiring initiative.Our government's support for hiring more teachers means that stude...

VANCOUVER - A police crackdown on violent and chronic shoplifters in Vancouver has ended in 258 arrests and the recovery of almost $57,000 in stolen goods. Vancouver police say the arrests were made d...

VANCOUVER - Sharp-eyed mariners on a Canadian vessel have rescued a U.S. man, one day after the United States Coast Guard ended its search for a commercial fishing boat from Washington state with two ...

VANCOUVER - Mountain Equipment Company says Peter Hlynsky is the retailer's new chief executive. Hlynsky joined the Vancouver-based outdoor gear company in 2020, serving as its chief financial officer...

VICTORIA - British Columbia has officially designated a large, fierce-looking marine reptile that swam in waters off Vancouver Island 80 million years ago as the province's official fossil emblem. The...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is moving to protect more old-growth forests and critical habitat with a type of crowd-source funding. Premier David Eby says the government will work with t...

SURREY, B.C. - An Oregon man has been sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. federal prison for sexually exploiting three British Columbia children. RCMP say 37-year-old Kevin McCarty of Happy Valley, Ore., ...

PRINCE GEORGE - The wildfire season in BC started six months ago, and there are currently over 250 active wildfires burning across the province the right now, with the vast majority considered under c...

LANGLEY, B.C. - Investigators have determined that a body found at the scene of an explosion in Langley, B.C., was not murder. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says in a statement that polic...

SURREY, B.C. - Organizers of an upcoming vote on an independent Sikh state say Canada's allegations of India's links to the killing of activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar have significantly bolstered vocal ...