Category Archives: British Columbia

Safety board to investigate accident at Metro Vancouver's Boundary Bay Airport
DELTA, B.C. - Transportation Safety Board investigators have been deployed following an accident involving a small plane at the Boundary Bay Airport in Metro Vancouver. The board says the accident inv...
Jun 29, 2023

RCMP say several people have life-threatening injuries after crash on Highway 93
RADIUM HOT SPRINGS, B.C. - Police say a serious head-on collision has closed Highway 93 north of Radium Hot Springs, B.C., not far from the Alberta boundary. Banff RCMP say it's assisting Columbia Val...
Jun 29, 2023

Searchers look for B.C. teen missing in provincial park since Tuesday
MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. - A helicopter, a drone and teams of rescuers from across the Lower Mainland are part of a search for a missing teen who was separated from her group while hiking in a Metro Vancouve...
Jun 29, 2023

B.C. staff who failed to check on two abused foster children lose jobs: ministry
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says staff members at the Children's Ministry who failed to check on two Indigenous children who were systematically abused by their foster parents have lost...
Jun 29, 2023

Emergency department reopens after man shot dead by police in B.C. hospital
HOPE, B.C. - The Fraser Health authority says the emergency department at a Hope, B.C., hospital that was temporarily closed after a fatal police shooting has reopened. The department shut its doors W...
Jun 29, 2023

Canadian Chamber of Commerce wants B.C. port strike averted, cites economic impact
VANCOUVER - The Canadian Chamber of Commerce says it is "deeply disturbed" the British Columbia port workers' union has served strike notice and is prepared to walk out on Saturday. The chamber has is...
Jun 29, 2023

Reconciliation sparks a reckoning for Canada Day fireworks displays
VANCOUVER - Chief Don Tom of the Tsartlip First Nation on Vancouver Island says he's been known to "partake" in watching fireworks, as a way to bring families together. But on Canada Day, he wants peo...
Jun 29, 2023

Man dies after being shot by police at B.C. hospital
HOPE, B.C. - British Columbia's police watchdog is investigating the death of a man who was shot by an RCMP officer in southern British Columbia Wednesday. Mounties say an "interaction" between the ma...
Jun 28, 2023

B.C. to launch website to book appointments with pharmacists to treat minor ailments
VANCOUVER - In an attempt to ease some of the pressure on British Columbia's health-care system, Premier David Eby says the province will become the first in Canada to offer online booking for residen...
Jun 28, 2023

Mounties in Nanaimo, B.C., probe theft of German shepherd puppies
NANAIMO, B.C. - The RCMP are investigating the theft of 10 German shepherd puppies from a backyard kennel in Nanaimo, B.C. Police say the theft occurred around 3 a.m. Monday morning. Since then, five ...
Jun 28, 2023