Category Archives: British Columbia
Dawson Creek RCMP announce charges against three people in 2023 homicide
DAWSON CREEK - Police in Dawson Creek, B.C., say three people have been charged with first-degree murder more than two years after a 37-year-old man was found dead in a vehicle on New Year's Eve in 20...
Feb 01, 2026
Owner of B.C. ghost town taking another swing at energy exports
CALGARY - Krishnan Suthanthiran is trying to make Kitsault, B.C., happen - again. The Indian-born, U.S.-based medical technology entrepreneur says he spent about US$7 million two decades ago to purcha...
Feb 01, 2026
Vancouver Island rescuers helped people, sheep, dogs and cat after heavy rains
COURTENAY - Heavy rains on Vancouver Island on Friday kept a search and rescue team busy as they helped nearly a dozen people out of floodwaters, as well as dogs, a cat and four sheep. Comox Valley Se...
Jan 31, 2026
Former MP Findlay joins B.C. Conservative race amid donation row
VICTORIA - Former federal MP and minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay has joined the race to lead the Conservative Party of B.C., immediately joining the fray over who is conservative enough for the job. Find...
Jan 30, 2026
Jim Pattison Developments not proceeding with sale of industrial building in Virginia
Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments will not be selling a Virginia warehouse property to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which had said it wanted the site as an Immigration and Customs...
Jan 30, 2026 (Image Credit: Canadian Press)
B.C. says AI and data centre projects must compete for power in new selection process
British Columbia's government is launching a competitive selection process for artificial intelligence and data centre projects that would see companies fight over a set amount of power. B.C. Energy M...
Jan 30, 2026
Evacuation order as Vancouver Island district declares flood emergency
A state of local emergency has been declared in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, with drenching rain prompting an order to evacuate a campground and nearby properties due to rising floodwaters. T...
Jan 30, 2026
B.C.-based Pattison says Virginia warehouse sale to ICE won't proceed
VANCOUVER - Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments announced Friday it will no longer be selling a Virginia warehouse property to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which had said it wanted ...
Jan 30, 2026
CFIA official tells of threats and harassment that dogged ostrich cull operation
As Canadian Food Inspection Agency workers prepared for a cull of hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm, they came under a variety of harassment from opponents of the operation, said a seni...
Jan 30, 2026
Wagon-dragging B.C. islanders face weeks without vehicle bridge, knocked askew by tug
DELTA - When Abby Collier heard that the only bridge connecting Westham Island to Delta and the Metro Vancouver mainland had been damaged by a boat strike last week, she assumed it would be closed for...
Jan 30, 2026