Category Archives: British Columbia

Police suspected 'murder-suicide' in Prince Rupert family's deaths: B.C. official
An inquest into the deaths of a B.C. family of four has heard for the first time that police characterized the deaths as a suspected murder-suicide, as well as a recorded police interview describing t...
Feb 04, 2026

Media exclusion zone during 2023 Vancouver decampment 'unlawful,' report finds
VANCOUVER - Police and the City of Vancouver took "unlawful" actions when restricting media access as city workers broke up a Downtown Eastside homeless encampment in 2023, but they are unwilling to a...
Feb 04, 2026

Abbotsford, B.C., man now charged with first-degree murder in death of a woman
ABBOTSFORD - Police say an Abbotsford, B.C., man is now facing an upgraded charge of first-degree murder in the death of a 30-year-old woman who was found dead inside a hotel last month. Homicide inve...
Feb 04, 2026

10 candidates in B.C. Conservative leadership race as Banman and Kooner join field
VICTORIA - B.C. Conservative MLAs Bruce Banman and Steve Kooner are joining the contest to lead the party, pushing the field of candidates into double digits. Abbotsford-South MLA Banman says in an in...
Feb 04, 2026

Asylum claims won't stop extortion suspects facing justice: Immigration Department
VICTORIA - Canada's Immigration Department says claiming asylum "cannot, and will not" prevent criminals being punished, after British Columbia's premier criticized refugee claims by extortion suspect...
Feb 04, 2026

B.C. minister says Ottawa is missing from the table on flood mitigation planning
OTTAWA - British Columbia's minister of emergency management is accusing the federal government of being absent from flood mitigation planning meetings following two major flooding events in her provi...
Feb 04, 2026

Parents of B.C.'s Piper James grieve on Australian beach where she died
BRISBANE - The parents of Canadian teenager Piper James have walked in the surf and taken part in a traditional Aboriginal ceremony on an Australian beach where their daughter was found dead last mont...
Feb 04, 2026

What's a 'thumper'? B.C. RCMP describe devices in an unneighbourly noise dispute
When two RCMP officers responded to a call about screams coming from a Burnaby, B.C., condo in late October last year, they forcibly entered the unit believing someone might be in trouble. Instead, th...
Feb 04, 2026

Former B.C. lawyer who stabbed client to death is found guilty of first-degree murder
After former Kamloops, B.C., lawyer Rogelio (Butch) Bagabuyo stole almost $800,000 from a client, stabbed him to death and then smuggled the body out of his office in a plastic tote, he tried to expla...
Feb 03, 2026

B.C. man feared 'hit' because of a feeling, ex-Mountie tells inquest into deaths
BURNABY - A former RCMP officer says a man found dead with his wife and two young sons in Prince Rupert, B.C., told him days before that he had a "feeling" that someone was trying to kill them, not be...
Feb 03, 2026