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Ask for public inquiry if you disagree: police complaint commissioner to mayors
VICTORIA – The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner is encouraging two Greater Victoria mayors…
Slide near Site C dam in northeastern B.C. cuts road, prompts limited evacuation
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – A landslide is creeping down a steep slope in northeastern…
LNG Canada project in British Columbia given final approval by shareholders
VANCOUVER – Investors have given final approval for a massive liquefied national gas project in…
Suspect wanted for passing off washers as toonies in alleged $30,000 fraud case
VANCOUVER – Police say 17 banks in British Columbia were defrauded of more than $30,000…
Stranded sturgeon prompts RCMP river rescue in British Columbia
AGASSIZ, B.C. – Cpl. Mike Rail says there is no need to exaggerate an RCMP…
Canada’s finance minister touts USMCA but says dairy, steel sectors need help
VANCOUVER – Finance Minister Bill Morneau says Canada’s new trade deal will bring more economic…
Canucks player says team has ‘Fortnite’ ban for season
VANCOUVER – A day after Vancouver forward Bo Horvat said the Canucks have instituted a…
B.C. files to be intervener in new National Energy Board hearings on pipeline
VICTORIA – The British Columbia government wants to take part in the National Energy Board’s…
Future uncertain for long-standing Vancouver pot shops after legalization
VANCOUVER – Cannabis connoisseurs in Vancouver have been able to buy potent weed over the…
B.C. movie industry aims to be more green, both in production and onscreen
VANCOUVER – The movie industry has always been at the forefront of change and the…
Man may have exposed himself to more than 60 women and teenaged girls: Police
Vancouver police have charged a man with exposing himself to teenage girls and woman and…
Father says Grade 10 worksheet was biased against right-wing views
VICTORIA – An assignment that asked students at a high school in British Columbia to…
Second shooting pushes homicide cases on the Lower Mainland to 3 in 24 hours
CHILLIWACK, B.C. – Homicide investigators on the Lower Mainland responded to their third case in…
‘Irreplaceable’ instruments pinched from West Coast rock band 54-40
VANCOUVER – West Coast rock band 54-40 says it was robbed of seven “irreplaceable” instruments…
Man allegedly sets fire to couches in North Delta, B.C., police station
VANCOUVER – Police in British Columbia have arrested a man who allegedly set fire to…
Scientists trying to save B.C.’s western rattlesnakes from becoming roadkill
VANCOUVER – British Columbia’s rattlesnakes may not get much respect, but scientists are working to…
Gasoline-like substance linked to private residence in Surrey, B.C.
SURREY, B.C. – A gasoline-like substance found in the area where the Trans Mountain pipeline…
Entrepreneurs cook up edible pot products despite legalization delay
VANCOUVER – Yannick Craigwell doesn’t need to guess how large the Canadian appetite will be…
Woodlands survivors begin receiving compensation from B.C. government
VANCOUVER – Survivors of abuse at a notorious school and psychiatric facility in New Westminster,…
27 squatters arrested, charged after occupying vacant school in Nanaimo, B.C.
NANAIMO, B.C. – Twenty seven squatters who took over a boarded-up elementary school in Nanaimo,…
Pipeline ruptures, sparks massive fire north of Prince George, B.C.
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. – About 100 members of a First Nation community in northern British…
Canada set to become largest country with legal pot sales
DELTA, B.C. – Mat Beren and his friends used to drive by the vast greenhouses…
Luxury bike wear company Kit and Ace parts ways with Lululemon founders
Luxury bike wear company Kit and Ace is steering itself in a new direction without…
Canada pipeline blast risks Washington natural gas shortage
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. – A pipeline explosion in British Columbia risks cutting off the flow…