Category Archives: British Columbia
'Fool's errand': Why the Exxon Valdez looms large over northern pipeline debate
VICTORIA - The Exxon Valdez disaster happened more than 36 years ago off Alaska's coast, but the catastrophic oil spill still looms over plans for a pipeline from Alberta to the northern British Colum...
Nov 30, 2025 In this April 9, 1989 file photo, crude oil from the tanker Exxon Valdez, top, swirls on the surface of Alaska's Prince William Sound near Naked Island. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, John Gaps III
Investigators deployed to scene following a train derailment near Cranbrook, B.C.
CRANBROOK - An investigation is underway after multiple cars of a Canadian Pacific Kansas City train derailed about 16 kilometres east of Cranbrook, B.C. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says...
Nov 29, 2025
Man dead following late-night shooting in Surrey, police say
SURREY - Surrey police say a man is dead after a late-night shooting in the city. Police say officers responded to calls of a shooting before midnight on Friday, and when they arrived, officers found ...
Nov 29, 2025
Canadian watched childhood home burn as Hong Kong blaze killed more than 100 people
Toronto resident Paul Chow was devastated when the apartment where he grew up made international news after a raging inferno tore through seven highrise towers in Hong Kong, leaving more than 100 dead...
Nov 29, 2025
Four captured grizzlies not linked to attack on B.C. schoolchildren: officials
BELLA COOLA - B.C. conservation officers have ruled out any link between four captured grizzly bears and a recent attack on a group of schoolchildren and their teachers. The B.C. Conservation Officer ...
Nov 28, 2025
B.C. dairy milk testers on strike, call for fair mileage compensation: union
BURNABY - The BC General Employees Union says dairy milk testers in the province have started job action. The union says it represents dairy production technicians employed by Lactanet, and they began...
Nov 28, 2025
Trans Mountain poised for expansions as pipeline fills up
CALGARY - The chief executive of Crown-owned pipeline operator Trans Mountain Corp. says the Alberta-to-British-Columbia conduit has been running at almost full capacity lately, and expansions it and ...
Nov 28, 2025
Woman breaches B.C. hospital neonatal care unit, makes contact with three infants
SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating after an unidentified woman gained access to a neonatal intensive care unit and made "skin-to-skin contact" with three babies before she was removed....
Nov 28, 2025
'Prime conspirator' arrested for shootings at Kap's Café in B.C., Indian police say
SURREY - Police in Delhi say they've arrested the "prime conspirator" behind a series of extortion-linked shootings at a B.C. caf, who they say fled to India after being charged with multiple offences...
Nov 28, 2025
CIBC analysts cast doubt on private sector taking on new B.C. pipeline any time soon
CALGARY - Analysts at CIBC Capital Markets say they don't expect the private sector to take the lead on a new West Coast oilsands pipeline so long as the British Columbia government and First Nations ...
Nov 28, 2025