Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C.'s new fossil emblem an 80-million-year-old marine reptile called elasmosaur
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...
Oct 26, 2023
B.C. introduces crowd-sourcing mechanism to protect old-growth forests, more habitat
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...
Oct 26, 2023
U.S. man sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex exploitation of 3 B.C. children
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., ...
Oct 26, 2023
Drought conditions leading to more wildfires burning longer
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...
Oct 26, 2023
Body found at Langley, B.C., building explosion not a homicide: police
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...
Oct 26, 2023
Sikh activists in B.C. emboldened by Trudeau's comments on India ahead of referendum
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 ...
Oct 26, 2023
B.C. man sentenced to 18 months for 2019 overdose death of 14-year-old Carson Crimeni
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A man has been sentenced to 18 months in jail with another 18 months of conditional supervisionafter pleading guilty to manslaughter in the high-profile overdose death of a 14-...
Oct 26, 2023
CP NewsAlert: Vancouver police raid drug activists' office, two arrested
Vancouver police have executed search warrants at the offices of the Drug User Liberation Front, an activist group that says it runs a "compassion club" for distributing drugs. Police arrested two peo...
Oct 26, 2023
West Fraser Timber third-quarter earnings, sales lower compared with last year
VANCOUVER - West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. says it earned US$159 million in the third quarter, compared with US$216 million a year earlier. The Vancouver-based company says sales were US$1.7 billion, dow...
Oct 25, 2023
New proposed legislation will outline collaboration between Indigenous peoples and education boards
VICTORIA-New proposed legislation will allow Indigenous people to have more input into the decisions and processes affecting the education of Indigenous children and youth in B.C. public schools. Part...
Oct 25, 2023