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ICBC talking to teens about road safety ahead of graduation

ICBC talking to teens about road safety ahead of graduation

Apr 19, 2024 / 9:00 pm

ICBC is urging safe choices ahead of high school graduation season. New drivers are eight times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than an experienced...

Family asks for help to find missing woman from Williams Lake travelling to Chase

Family asks for help to find missing woman from Williams Lake travelling to Chase

Williams Lake Apr 19, 2024 / 7:42 pm

The family of a missing 44-year-old is reaching out to the public for help. Carrie Zowty has been missing since Wednesday, April 17, leaving Williams Lake the...

Stanley Cup Playoff Etiquette: Do’s and Don’ts for Canucks Fans

Stanley Cup Playoff Etiquette: Do’s and Don’ts for Canucks Fans

Apr 19, 2024 / 6:32 pm

As early 2000’s rock troubadours Staind once said, “It’s been a while.” It’s been nine years since Vancouver last hosted a game in...

Surrey shipping container is not a garden shed, judge rules

Surrey shipping container is not a garden shed, judge rules

Surrey Apr 19, 2024 / 6:12 pm

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has told a Surrey man he cannot have a shipping container as a shed for storing his children’s things in his garden. The City...

Sentencing dates set for killer of 13-year-old Burnaby girl

Sentencing dates set for killer of 13-year-old Burnaby girl

Burnaby Apr 19, 2024 / 6:03 pm

Nearly seven years after a 13-year-old girl was found dead in a Burnaby park, sentencing dates have been set for the man convicted of her killing. A jury found...

B.C. municipalities join provincial plan to clamp down on AirBnB rentals

B.C. municipalities join provincial plan to clamp down on AirBnB rentals

Apr 19, 2024 / 5:58 pm

Seventeen B.C. towns and rural areas have opted in to new provincial rules that significantly curtail short-term vacation rentals, joining 60 municipalities...

B.C. groups challenge Alaska's 'sustainable' fisheries status

B.C. groups challenge Alaska's 'sustainable' fisheries status

Alaska Apr 19, 2024 / 5:55 pm

Two B.C. conservation groups have filed a notice of objection to the the world’s premier sustainable fisheries body calling on it to reject the...

B.C. businesses brace for boom as Vancouver Canucks gear up for playoffs

B.C. businesses brace for boom as Vancouver Canucks gear up for playoffs

Vancouver Apr 19, 2024 / 5:14 pm

The Vancouver Canucks’ first home playoff game in nine years is great news not only for B.C. hockey fans but West Coast businesses, too. The Canucks face...

Feds halt deportation of B.C.-based climate activist

Feds halt deportation of B.C.-based climate activist

Apr 19, 2024 / 4:16 pm

A B.C.-based climate activist scheduled to be deported over the weekend has had his removal stayed after federal politicians intervened in his case. Zain Haq,...

B.C. lawyer once crowned 'Canada's smartest person' suspended from practice

B.C. lawyer once crowned 'Canada's smartest person' suspended from practice

Apr 19, 2024 / 3:57 pm

The lawyer who once won a CBC contest proclaiming him “Canada’s smartest person” has handed in his licence to the Law Society of BC after...

First Nation solar farm in B.C. expected to save 1.1 million litres of diesel a year

First Nation solar farm in B.C. expected to save 1.1 million litres of diesel a year

Anahim Lake Apr 19, 2024 / 3:34 pm

A First Nation in central British Columbia will build what the federal government says will likely be the largest off-grid solar project in Canada. Nearly $16...

B.C. prison guard assaulted 200+ inmates, lawsuit alleges

B.C. prison guard assaulted 200+ inmates, lawsuit alleges

Apr 19, 2024 / 3:33 pm

A former B.C. prison guard alleged to have assaulted more than 200 prisoners is named along with B.C.’s government as a defendant in a new class-action...

Castlegar residents charged with drug trafficking, RCMP seize Audi

Castlegar residents charged with drug trafficking, RCMP seize Audi

Castlegar Apr 19, 2024 / 2:26 pm

A pair or Kootenay residents have now been charged after a search in Castlegar almost a year ago. RCMP searched a property in the 2600-block of 5th Ave in...

'Eat the rich': Luxury vehicles left with note, deflated tires in Vancouver neighbourhoods

'Eat the rich': Luxury vehicles left with note, deflated tires in Vancouver neighbourhoods

Vancouver Apr 19, 2024 / 1:57 pm

Luxury vehicles parked in two Vancouver neighbourhoods have been damaged and left with a note on them. An individual who lives in Kitsilano tells Glacier Media...

Trapped B.C. orca calf seen taking '40 pounds of seal' from First Nation members

Trapped B.C. orca calf seen taking '40 pounds of seal' from First Nation members

Vancouver Island Apr 19, 2024 / 1:29 pm

UPDATE 1:30 p.m. A young killer whale trapped in a B.C. lagoon appears to have fed on chunks of seal meat thrown into the water, as preparations continue for a...

Vehicle crashes into Walmart's store wall in Prince George

Vehicle crashes into Walmart's store wall in Prince George

Prince George Apr 19, 2024 / 11:40 am

A vehicle crashed into the side of Walmart on the 6500 block of Southridge Drive in College Heights, which was reported to Prince George RCMP just after 2:30...

Officer cleared after cyclist hit in Langford

Officer cleared after cyclist hit in Langford

Vancouver Island Apr 19, 2024 / 11:39 am

A police officer has been cleared of any wrongdoing in a March incident in Langford in which a cyclist was hurt in a collision with a police vehicle. The...

Some B.C. seniors endure a quiet housing crisis

Some B.C. seniors endure a quiet housing crisis

Apr 19, 2024 / 10:44 am

B.C.’s seniors are in a housing crisis, with a growing segment of people over the age of 55 sliding into homelessness for the first time in their lives....

Don't cheap out on travel medical, experts say, after family runs into resistance from insurance firm

Don't cheap out on travel medical, experts say, after family runs into resistance from insurance firm

Victoria Apr 19, 2024 / 5:48 am

The experience of a woman seriously injured in a scooter crash in Thailand is a reminder to travellers to do their research before purchasing travel medical...

Vancouver police issue warning about UVic student's killer, now on day parole

Vancouver police issue warning about UVic student's killer, now on day parole

Vancouver Apr 18, 2024 / 5:25 pm

The Vancouver Police Department is warning the public that a man who murdered a University of Victoria student 37 years ago will be living in the city and poses...

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