Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Gary Muchula plans to be at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles next February for Super Bowl 56.That's one of the plans the football fan from West Vancouver is making after winning $10.2 mil...

VICTORIA - The coast guard has updated the number of containers that fell into the ocean from a cargo ship off Victoria to 106, up from the original estimate of 40. It says the owner of the MV Zim Kin...

VANCOUVER - An independent group of researchers analyzing the course of COVID-19 in British Columbia says cases are declining at about two per cent a day but children under 10 could now be more at ris...

NANAIMO - It looked real for dozens of onlookers, but a beached whale in Departure Bay turned out to be little more than a routine training drill.Local officers from Fisheries and Oceans Canada were o...

VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. beat expectations as it reported a third-quarter profit of $816 million, up from $61 million in the same quarter last year, helped by strong commodity prices. The Vanco...

NANAIMO - A key, underused part of the downtown core is in the spotlight, with the goal of making Diana Krall Plaza a bustling community hub.Councillors heard a detailed plan, formulated over the last...

VANCOUVER - An uptick in random assaults highlighted by Vancouver police could point to bigger problems that may be magnified by the pandemic, say experts. Vancouver police said in a series of posts o...

VANCOUVER - A B.C. First Nation is challenging in court an online registry the province uses to automatically grant mineral rights on its territory. The Gitxaala have filed a petition to the B.C. Supr...

NANAIMO - Island Health is warning drug users about an increasing number of overdoses in Nanaimo, triggering an advisory.The advisory was issued on Tuesday, Oct. 26 and is scheduled to last for at lea...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's auditor general says he has a $6-billion difference of opinion with the government on calculating the province's financial bottom line. Michael Pickup says an audit of B....