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Attack leaves woman dead

Attack leaves woman dead

Port Alberni Jul 15, 2015 / 12:08 pm

A woman has been killed in Port Alberni, and RCMP in the Vancouver Island city say the case is a homicide. Insp. Mac Richards says officers responded to a call...

UBC peeping tom alert

UBC peeping tom alert

Vancouver Jul 15, 2015 / 8:58 am

Women are being warned about a peeping Tom prowling around two dormitories at the University of British Columbia's Point Grey campus in Vancouver. The...

Freeze on freezing fought

Freeze on freezing fought

Vancouver Jul 15, 2015 / 6:16 am

A law prohibiting the sale of a service in British Columbia that preserves human bodies at ultra-low temperatures after clinical death is being challenged in...

A dangerous commodity

A dangerous commodity

B.C. Water Petition Jul 15, 2015 / 5:00 am

B.C. could lose control of one of its most precious natural resources – water. That according to former Okanagan MLA Judi Tyabji. Tyabji says the creators...

B.C. is still burning

B.C. is still burning

Jul 14, 2015 / 7:16 pm

Don't let a few clouds and some cooler weather fool you, the surrounding hills are still a tinderbox waiting for a spark. While scattered showers and cooler...

$70,000 coke bust

$70,000 coke bust

Salmon Arm Jul 14, 2015 / 5:32 pm

Police in Salmon Arm have taken 1.5 kilos of cocaine off the streets with an estimated value of about $70,000. Early Tuesday, police say they were alerted to a...

Security shutdown at Leg

Security shutdown at Leg

Victoria Jul 14, 2015 / 5:01 pm

Parts of British Columbia's legislature have been reopened to the public following a noisy protest inside the public gallery. Government officials cited...

Impound for butt flickers?

Impound for butt flickers?

Jul 14, 2015 / 4:20 pm

The provincial government has announced it will review fines and penalties in place for people who start wildfires – including possibly impounding the...

B.C.'s salmon 'cooked'

B.C.'s salmon 'cooked'

Jul 14, 2015 / 3:06 pm

The Fisheries Department says record-breaking weather along the coast of British Columbia will affect Pacific salmon for years to come. Ocean scientist Ian...

Spies knew of bomb

Spies knew of bomb

Vancouver Jul 14, 2015 / 2:56 pm

A Conservative MP says Canada's spy agency knew there was a bomb on the Air India plane that later exploded in midair, killing 329 people. In a late June...

Fatal fall at building site

Fatal fall at building site

Port Coquitlam Jul 14, 2015 / 12:55 pm

A man in his 20s has died after falling four storeys while partying at an apartment construction site in suburban Vancouver. RCMP in Port Coquitlam say the...

Heads roll at TransLink

Heads roll at TransLink

Vancouver Jul 14, 2015 / 12:50 pm

Metro Vancouver's transit authority says two top managers are out and the acting chief executive will be replaced following a failed transit plebiscite....

Dad died to protect family

Dad died to protect family

Surrey Jul 14, 2015 / 12:07 pm

Homicide investigators say a 22-year-old man has been charged with the second-degree murder of a Surrey father and well-known realtor. Khouri Green is due to...

Teachers appeal to top court

Teachers appeal to top court

Vancouver Jul 14, 2015 / 12:02 pm

British Columbia teachers have filed leave to appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada in an ongoing battle with the province over bargaining rights. The B.C....

Clark skips LNG debate

Clark skips LNG debate

Victoria Jul 14, 2015 / 11:01 am

Travel plans will keep British Columbia's premier away from most of this week's legislative debate on the blueprint agreement for the liquefied natural...

Blaze a real buzzkill

Blaze a real buzzkill

Surrey Jul 14, 2015 / 6:50 am

Firefighters fought more than flames at house fire in Surrey early Tuesday. The fire at a duplex near King George Boulevard and 108th Avenue disturbed a wasp or...

Was it entrapment?

Was it entrapment?

Bomb plot Jul 14, 2015 / 6:19 am

The lead investigator of an RCMP sting wanted a pair of British Columbia terrorism suspects out of their home and away from the distractions of drugs and video...

Lost whale reunited

Lost whale reunited

Vancouver Jul 14, 2015 / 6:06 am

A Vancouver Aquarium orca researcher says a young killer whale has been reunited with its family two years after it was found alone in a remote cove. Fisheries...

Wildfire's cruel irony

Wildfire's cruel irony

Puntzi Lake Jul 13, 2015 / 9:49 pm

A couple who have been busy helping fight the Puntzi Lake wildfire lost their own home in that same fire. Les and Cathy Friend work at the Puntzi tanker base....

U.K. teen drowning victim

U.K. teen drowning victim

Jul 13, 2015 / 6:30 pm

The B.C. Coroners Service has identified a 17-year-old rugby player from London, England, as the victim of a fatal swimming accident on Vancouver Island....

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