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Vehicle drives over tent with kids inside

Photo: CTV 20-year-old mother was injured after a woman backed over her tent in a Tumbler Ridge, B.C. recreational area A young mom is recovering in hospital with a fractured eye socket and other injuries after a vehicle drove into the tent she was sleeping in with her two young sons...

Man abandons Porsche on ferry

Photo: Contributed - CTV A newer-model Porsche has been impounded after it was driven onto a BC Ferries vessel Wednesday night and mysteriously abandoned on the vehicle deck. The luxury car boarded a 7 p.m. sailing from Victoria to Tsawwassen, but when the ferry docked at the other...

Body of scuba diver identified

Photo: Contributed - Google A physician from Lethbridge,  has been identified as the scuba diver who died in Kootenay Lake near Kaslo, last week. The BC Coroners Service says 46-year-old Dr. Shane Mortimer was one of four people diving near the Anscomb shipwreck when his fellow...

Record rain caused slide near Kaslo

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. A landslide is pictured at Johnsons Landing northeast of Nelson, B.C., on July 13, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO- British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure A massive landslide that ripped through a small hamlet in...

Bitters add flavour to Island spirits

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Master Distiller Peter Hunt, takes a sample of his brandy from a wooden barrel at the Victoria Spirits Distillery in Saanich, B.C. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito  Tradition is an important ingredient in a family business, and for...

Dix will stay, review campaign

Photo: The Canadian Press - The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Sweat runs down the face of British Columbia NDP Leader Adrian Dix as he speaks to the media in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday May 22, 2013, for the first time since his party was defeated by the Liberal Party in the...

Blueberry-Paulson travel advisory

A travel advisory has been issued for motorists wanting to travel east from Grand Forks on Highway 3. Snow is forecast above 1,300 metres along the Blueberry-Paulson, a stretch of Highway 3 between Christina Lake and Castlegar. Snow is expected to begin falling today...

Former MLA killed in plane crash

Photo: CTV   Photo: Contributed - BC Gov Former MLA Harold Long Update 12:06 p.m.: A former member of BC legislative assembly, Harold Long, has been identified as the victim in a float plane crash off Vancouver Island. The BC Coroners Service says Long was...

Flood concerns across Southern BC

Homeowners in low lying areas over a wide section of B.C.'s southern and southeastern Interior are being urged to brace for flooding. Photo: Trevor Rockliffe - Castanet The River Forecast Centre has issued high streamflow advisories for the Similkameen River as well...

More snow expected for BC highways

Photo: Contributed - DriveBC Coquihalla Summit at 7:30 a.m. We haven't seen the last of the white stuff, as Environment Canada issues a special weather statement for several BC highways. A cold upper low over Washington state will remain nearly stationary through...

Fearless cougar stalks house pets

  Photo: CTV Cougar country A cougar with a taste for house pets is prowling in the Metro Vancouver community of Belcarra, just west of Port Moody. RCMP were called to the wooded, rural neighbourhood overlooking Indian Arm at about 8:20 Tuesday night...

Free to express their political opinions

British Columbia's teachers are free to express their political opinions through buttons and posters in schools after a BC Appeal Court panel sided with the union in a constitutional challenge. The BC Teachers Federation battle began before the 2009 provincial election when teachers in...

Greyhound bus impounded for speeding

Photo: Contributed - File photo When it comes to the rules of the road, no one is immune in BC, including the passenger bus service Greyhound. The Ministry of Transportation says one of the company's buses was impounded after speeding through a construction zone on...

Snow hits the Coquihalla & 97C

  Photo: DriveBC Taken at 3:20 p.m. May. 21. DriveBC has put out a weather alert for Highway 5 and 97C. Highway 97C has a travel advisory in effect due to heavy snowfall from Junction with Highway 5A, at Aspen Grove to Pennask Summitt (1728 metres)...

Saanich man, 85, beat in home invasion

  Photo: Google Maps An 85-year-old man remains in hospital after being beaten during a home invasion in Saanich. Sgt. Steve Eassie of the Saanich Police Department says the elderly man's 59-year-old daughter was visiting from out of town on Monday when the...

Driver, 11, flips jeep killing 12-year-old

  Photo: Google Maps The incident happened on a forest service road near Mackenzie, BC which is approximately 180km north of Prince George. A 12-year-old girl is dead after the vehicle she was traveling in flipped over on a forest service road near...

Air force helps rescue hiker

Photo: Contributed - Royal Canadian Air Force, 19 Wing Comox Flight Engineer, Corporal Will Kerby, prepares to bring an injured hiker inside a Cormorant helicopter after being hoisted from the banks of the Chehalis River, near Harrison River in the early morning of Monday,...

Coal mine rejected on Vancouver Island

A controversial application to open a coal mine in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island has been rejected as inadequate by the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office.   Photo: CBC Environmental groups and local First Nations have fought the Raven coal mine...

Ahmadiyya mosque opens in Delta

Thousands gathered in Delta Saturday for the opening of a new mosque, now one of the largest houses of worship for the Ahmadiyya Islamic community in the world. The $8 million Baitur Rahman complex on River Road is 33,000 sq. ft and includes a day care, gym and prayer...

BC NDP's bus ride went beyond Hope

  Photo: Facebook Adrian Dix was inside the Hitching Post Restaurant in Hedley , drinking from a mug stamped with twin six-shooters while outside on the old mining town's main street, with dusk starting to cover the mountaintops, his campaign workers were...