Category Archives: British Columbia

DELTA, B.C. - British Columbia is increasing funding incentives for businesses to $10 million to develop products to reduce plastic pollution. Environment Minister George Heyman says the province is a...

VANCOUVER - Hootsuite Inc. says it will lay off 30 per cent of its staff as part of a global restructuring. The Vancouver-based social media business did not say what triggered the job cuts, but tech ...

VANCOUVER - People living in a growing street encampment along a busy street in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside have been handed notices advising that the tents and other structures are about to be remo...

VERNON - A GoFundMe is underway to help the family of a Vernon doctor who is missing and presumed drowned in the Thompson River in Kamloops.The website said Dr. Michael Mthandazo was in Kamloops July ...

KEREMEOS, B.C. - The BC Wildfire Service says it is using a combination of tools to control a blaze on the outskirts of the southern Okanagan region. Information officer Mikhail Elsay had said control...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government's handling of the health-care file has prompted a Vernon, B.C., resident to launch a recall campaign against her local New Democrat member of the legislature...

VANCOUVER - Charges have been laid against a man accused of attacking several people with a machete in downtown Vancouver. A statement from Vancouver police says 48-year-old Ibrahim Bakhit faces three...

VICTORIA - A British Columbia man is missing in Spain and police in Victoria are working with Spanish investigators to find him. A statement from Victoria police says 67-year-old Scott Graham was last...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A teenager has died in an ATV rollover in Williams Lake, B.C. RCMP say the 17-year-old female was riding at the end of the Gun-a-Noot Trail south of the city when she crashed. Po...

KEREMEOS, B.C. - The BC Wildfire Service says planned ignitions are scheduled to enclose a fire burning in the southern Okanagan. Information officer Mikhail Elsay says the controlled burn will increa...