Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - Gusty winds have kicked up the activity of a huge wildfire in northeastern British Columbia, forcing evacuation orders for another 14 remote properties outside Fort Nelson. The Peace River...

VANCOUVER - Swiss company Glencore it has made an offer to buy the steelmaking coal business of Teck Resources Ltd. The company said in a statement Monday it would pay cash for the assets, but did not...

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver family known for its philanthropy is making a $20 million donation to a British Columbia substance use treatment centre in memory of their adult son and brother who died of an ...

VANCOUVER - Cross-border shopping buses filled with Chinese and Korean Canadian consumers were once ubiquitous outside Washington state malls, but they have all-but disappeared from the commercial lan...

Fire officials are hoping a wind change will help save the community of Tumbler Ridge in northeastern British Columbia, after an intense wildfire pushed within a few kilometres of the town. The commun...

VICTORIA - British Columbia will soon be the first jurisdiction in Canada to implement a licensing requirement for asbestos abatement contractors. The Labour Ministry says workers must be licensed by ...

VANCOUVER - Showers on Saturday could sprinkle an aggressive wildfire that has forced more than two-thousand people from their homes in northeastern British Columbia, but forecasters say thunderstorms...

PRINCE GEORGE- Another uptick in the unemployment numbers for Prince George last month, climbing to 7.9 percent from 7.3 percent in April, and 3.9 percent in May of 2022. We saw roughly 5,000 fewer pe...

CHILLIWACK, B.C. - A bus carrying elementary school students on a field trip has caught fire on a road in Chilliwack, B.C., spreading to a nearby structure and cutting power to the area before being e...

VICTORIA - Bank of Canada deputy governor Paul Beaudry says recent economic data suggests the risk of sticky inflation has gone up, prompting the central bank's decision to raise interest rates on Wed...