Category Archives: British Columbia
Teck Resources receives indications of interest for steelmaking coal business
VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. says it has received a number of indications of interest regarding potential transactions involving the company's steelmaking coal business as it works to split the ope...
Jun 06, 2023
B.C. officials push back on safe supply critics, seeing 'no sign' drugs are diverted
VICTORIA - British Columbia officials have rebutted claims that drugs prescribed through the province's safe supply program aimed at curbing overdoses are being re-sold to young people, helping fuel t...
Jun 05, 2023
Northeast wildfire now the third largest in B.C's history: BC Wildfire Service
The BC Wildfire Service says the Donnie Creek wildfire has grown into one of the largest blazes over the last century in the province. The fire, which is burning north of Fort St. John, is currently e...
Jun 05, 2023
'I don't even know how they get a license': near miss involving semi-truck near Clearwater under investigation
CLEARWATER, B.C. - A close call involving a commercial truck driver near Clearwater Friday (June 2) at around 7 p.m. is under investigation. Dash camera footage captured by Kathy Braaten, a long-time ...
Jun 04, 2023
June means trouble for B.C. wildfires with hot, dry forecast set to compound drought
Underlying drought, unseasonably warm temperatures last month and hot, dry conditions in the June forecast mean "the table has been set" for significant wildfire activity this summer, an official with...
Jun 04, 2023
Activists in Canada aim to carry torch for Hong Kong's silenced Tiananmen vigil
VANCOUVER - Some members of Canada's Chinese diaspora are feeling the pressure to carry the torch as Hong Kong's renowned vigil commemorating the June 4, 1989, massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square f...
Jun 03, 2023
One seriously hurt as plane catches fire in Surrey, B.C., RCMP say
SURREY, B.C. - Police say a person has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a plane caught fire in a field in the Metro Vancouver community of Surrey. RCMP say officers were assisting fi...
Jun 02, 2023
'Chaotic scene': Vancouver police say two injured in Downtown Eastside shooting
VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver say at least two people were sent to hospital after a shooting in the city's Downtown Eastside. They say officers responded to reports of shots fired Thursday afternoon...
Jun 02, 2023
B.C. giving $4.5 million to upgrade children's hospice facility
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government has announced $4.5 million in new funding for Canuck Place to renovate and upgrade the Vancouver children's hospice. Health Minister Adrian Dix says the fun...
Jun 02, 2023
B.C. extends deferral of old-growth logging in Vancouver Island's Fairy Creek
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has extended an order deferring old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek watershed on Vancouver Island. The extension to Feb. 1, 2025, applies to the order issu...
Jun 02, 2023