Category Archives: British Columbia

PRINCE GEORGE - A program aimed promoting made-in-B.C. products will be coming to Prince George Save-On-Foods locations.When you're out shopping for groceries, you may find it hard to distinguish betw...

SURREY, B.C. - The union representing members of the fledgling Surrey Police Service says its officers and civilian workers have "no intention" of joining the RCMP, should the municipal force be scrap...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A group in British Columbia wants better accountability for the use of a $5-billion recovery fund as provincial, municipal and Indigenous officials prepare to issue an update on rep...

VANCOUVER - A report commissioned by the Vancouver Police Department says $5 billion a year is being spent on the city's "social safety net," but is being criticized by a city councillor over its meth...

VICTORIA - A highway that washed out in more than two dozen places has reopened to the public a year after a series of atmospheric rivers stalled over southern British Columbia. Transportation Ministe...

SURREY, B.C. - A defence lawyer for former Surrey, B.C., mayor Doug McCallum says his client should be acquitted of a public mischief charge because the Crown failed to prove he intended to mislead po...

BURNABY, B.C. - Better training for staff selling firearms and a better process for booking mental-health appointments are among the recommendations being made by a B.C. jury that examined a 2016 poli...

CHILLIWACK, B.C. - Homicide detectives are investigating the discovery of two bodies in a home in Chilliwack, B.C. A statement from RCMP in the Fraser Valley city says police were called to the home i...

VICTORIA - David Eby will be sworn in as British Columbia's new premier by Lt.-Gov. Janet Austin in Vancouver next week, breaking with tradition. The Nov. 18 ceremony will be held at the Musqueam Comm...

VANCOUVER - Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says supplies of children's painkillers are increasing rapidly, but not quickly enough to meet an expected winter surge in demand. Duclos, speaking...