British Columbia

CP NewsAlert: Wildfire evacuation order lifted for Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

An evacuation order has been lifted for the community of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., nine days after more than 2,000 residents were forced out by an encroaching wildfire. More coming The Canadian Press

Jun 15, 2023

Campfire ban to be rescinded in Cariboo Fire Centre

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Campfires will be allowed in the Cariboo Fire Centre (CFC) this weekend.Effective 12:00 noon Friday (June 16), the CFC says its Category One campfire prohibition will be rescinde...

Jun 15, 2023

Four people found deceased in Prince Rupert home; RCMP investigating homicide

PRINCE RUPERT - Update: Multiple sources have told Global BC that a couple and their two children were the ones found deceased. Chris Duong and his partner Janet Nguyen were reportedly well known in t...

Jun 15, 2023

Global salmon farm company with B.C. ties backs land-based aquaculture in Japan

VICTORIA - The backing of a land-based salmon farm in Japan by a global company with ties to ocean fish farms in British Columbia has Indigenous and conservation groups calling on the federal governme...

Jun 15, 2023

Four found dead in Prince Rupert, B.C. home; police say deaths considered homicide

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. - Four people have been found dead in a home in British Columbia's northwest in what police is calling a homicide. Prince Rupert RCMP say officers responded to a call on Tuesday ev...

Jun 14, 2023

B.C. border agents find 6,300 kg of meth, including largest single seizure to date

DELTA, B.C. - The Canada Border Services Agency says it has confiscated more than 6,300 kilograms of methamphetamine in British Columbia over the last six months, including the largest ever single sei...

Jun 14, 2023

CP NewsAlert: B.C. provides universal coverage for opioid treatments

VICTORIA - British Columbia says it is providing universal coverage for opioid agonist treatments that help people with substance use disorders, making it the first province in Canada to do so. More c...

Jun 14, 2023

B.C. school district bans man who queried gender of girl, 9, at track meet

KELOWNA, B.C. - A man has been banned from events at a British Columbia school district after a mother said he interrupted a track meet to wrongly suggest her nine-year-old daughter was transgender an...

Jun 14, 2023

BC Hydro proposed rate changes denied by utilities commission

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Utilities Commission (BCUC) has denied BC Hydro's proposal for rate changes for the 2024 fiscal year.The utilities commission denied BC Hydro's proposal because it did not send th...

Jun 14, 2023

Northern B.C. wildfire nudges key northern highway, Island route still cut by flames

VANCOUVER - A key highway that connects Yukon and northern British Columbia to the rest of the province is now threatened by the huge Donnie Creek wildfire as the blaze chews through woodlands south o...

Jun 14, 2023