Category Archives: British Columbia

VICTORIA - British Columbia has approved the request of three First Nations that want old-growth logging deferred for two years in part of their territories, including at the site of ongoing protests ...

VICTORIA - Health officials in British Columbia say the province has a strong COVID-19 immunization rate at 74.5 per cent of all adults for their first dose of a vaccine. It comes as the infection rat...

NANAIMO - The number of new cases being found in Island Health is rising after hitting a recent low. The health authority confirmed 13 new cases on Wednesday, June 9, building off the nine confirmed t...

NANAIMO - Residents of a Nanaimo care home were thrilled to step out of the facility and onto a bus for a sightseeing tour of the city. Six Dufferin Place residents on Wednesday, June 9 were taken on ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's public safety minister is warning of potential contamination in illicit cannabis and the dangers of misleading packaging for illegal cannabis edibles. Mike Farnworth, who...

LANGLEY, BRITISH COLUMBIA, B.C. - Tina Taphouse has spent a lot of time lately reflecting on the impact the Kamloops Indian Residential School has had on her life's path. Taphouse didn't go to the sch...

VICTORIA - The federal government is taking steps to remove bulk fuel from a vessel that sank in 1968 and is leaking oil off the west coast of Vancouver Island. Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan sa...

KELOWNA - Interior Health (IH) has confirmed Dr. Sue Pollock will take over as its Interim Chief Medical Health Officer next Monday (June 14).Pollock's hiring comes in the wake of the arrest of Dr. Al...

The sale of illicit cannabis continues to thrive in B.C. through black market sale and unregulated shops on first nations land. The province has undertaken a pilot project to check the safety of that ...

KELOWNA - The chief medical health officer for Interior Health has been released from custody, following his arrest in Kelowna Tuesday June 8. RCMP say Dr. Albert de Villiers is charged with one count...