Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. has signed a deal to sell two pulp mills in Western Canada to Atlas Holdings for US$120 million. The sale includes West Fraser's Quesnel River Pulp mill in Ques...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The four British Columbia firefighters who died in a highway crash this week all worked for a Kamloops-based contractor, whose owner says they were like family. Aaron Duczak, owner of...

WEST KELOWNA, B.C. - The large wildfire that destroyed dozens of homes in West Kelowna, B.C., is now considered "held," after raging out of control since mid-August. The 139-square-kilometre McDougall...

VANCOUVER - A sexual assault expert testifying at the trial of a man accused of killing a 13-year-old girl in a B.C. park says she suffered injuries more consistent with childbirth that would have mad...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has awarded more than $327,000 to the parents of a teenager killed in 2019 for the "likely hypothetical future" care their son would have provided un...

Five weeks after it started, the McDougall Creek fire near West Kelowna is now classified as being held.That's a major change from the earlier designation as 'out of control,' and comes as a big relie...

VICTORIA - Four firefighters travelling home after battling British Columbia's wildfires have died in a road crash. Premier David Eby and Forests Minister Bruce Ralston say in a joint statement the fi...

ASHCROFT - Four firefighters travelling home after battling BC's wildfires have died in a two-vehicle collision near Cache Creek.RCMP say the crash occurred at around 2 a.m. 1 kilometre west of Junipe...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Police Department says it's beefing up security outside India's Consulate after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week there was credible intelligence about a potential...

OTTAWA - The Canadian government says it's "gravely concerned" about Azerbaijan escalating its military intervention in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, and the Tories are warning of ethnic cleansing. Bot...