British Columbia

RCMP saw potential wolf-human 'conflict,' zoo declared no risk: B.C. escape documents

VANCOUVER - Internal RCMP documents show police sawpotential for human-wolf "conflict" after the animals escaped their enclosure at the Greater Vancouver Zoo in August, despite the facility announcing...

Dec 19, 2022

Report shows B.C. has honoured pledge to deliver pandemic-postponed surgeries: Dix

VICTORIA - British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix says the latest report on surgery volumes in the province "demonstrates the strength" of the surgical system. Dix makes the comment as the Health...

Dec 19, 2022

B.C. universities to receive $4.3 million for innovation research funding: minister

VANCOUVER - Four British Columbia universities will receive $4.3 million from a government research and innovation program to help fund projects in the fields of health, technology and natural resourc...

Dec 19, 2022

Yukon wind chill below -50 C, more snow for southern B.C., as frigid system hits

VANCOUVER - Weather alerts blanket most of British Columbia, Yukon and a large portion of Alberta as a bitterly cold system sweeps across those regions and another round of snow threatens southern B.C...

Dec 19, 2022

'Glaciers can't get a break': How climate change is affecting Canada's icy landscape

VANCOUVER - On a mountain high above the residents of Metro Vancouver, tucked inside a north-facing gully, the region's last remaining glacier is vanishing fast. The Coquitlam Glacier has survived 4,0...

Dec 19, 2022

Province reminding drivers of poor road conditions for parts of B.C.

NORTH COAST - The Province of British Columbia is reminding its drivers using the major roadways to exercise caution as a dip in temperatures is expected and winter warnings have been issued in some p...

Dec 17, 2022

Heavy snow on Coquihalla, bitter cold in northwest and central B.C.: weather alert

VANCOUVER - Environment Canada is warning of heavy snow on the Coquihalla Highway and bitterly cold temperatures in British Columbia's northwest as arctic air sweeps across the province. Up to 20 cent...

Dec 17, 2022

Dreams of Chinese fame persist at Vancouver pageant, where stars are born

VANCOUVER - The eight women lining up to take questions included a pediatrician, a legal assistant and a piano teacher. But standing on stage in their bikinis at the River Rock Casino in Richmond, B.C...

Dec 17, 2022

Drivers warned as temperatures set to plummet from Vancouver to Yukon

SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia is warning drivers to prepare winter survival kits as a blast of frigid cold hits over the next week and the mercury plummets across the province. Temperatures over the...

Dec 16, 2022

B.C.'s Coquihalla Highway reopens to four lanes as repairs continue after 2021 floods

HOPE, B.C. - A stretch along a key highway that sustained severe damage from landslides and flooding across southwestern British Columbia last year is back to four lanes after temporary repairs at thr...

Dec 16, 2022