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Orphaned B.C. orca may be eating fish, vet says, as rescuers plan new strategy

Orphaned B.C. orca may be eating fish, vet says, as rescuers plan new strategy

Vancouver Island Apr 15, 2024 / 4:23 pm

A Vancouver Aquarium expert who's been involved in attempts to rescue an orphaned orca says the calf may be feeding on fish in the B.C. lagoon where...

B.C. pulp and paper mill fined $22,000 for leaking toxic gas into atmosphere

B.C. pulp and paper mill fined $22,000 for leaking toxic gas into atmosphere

Sunshine Coast Apr 15, 2024 / 3:56 pm

A B.C. pulp and paper mill owned by the country’s largest forestry company has been handed $22,000 in penalties for releasing toxic gases into the...

Dangerous sex offender living in B.C. community prompts notice from police

Dangerous sex offender living in B.C. community prompts notice from police

Surrey Apr 15, 2024 / 12:57 pm

A dangerous sex offender who has been convicted of crimes against teenage girls is living in Surrey and police are alerting the public. Leonard Ramstead, 56,...

B.C. collision claims life of 23-year-old pedestrian

B.C. collision claims life of 23-year-old pedestrian

Surrey Apr 15, 2024 / 12:23 pm

Police are investigating a multi-vehicle collision that left one person dead in Surrey. At 8:37 p.m. on Friday, police responded to a crash at 61A Avenue and...

Up to 15 cm of snow expected on Trans Canada through Rogers Pass

Up to 15 cm of snow expected on Trans Canada through Rogers Pass

Rogers Pass Apr 15, 2024 / 11:56 am

Spring snowfall is expected on the Trans Canada Highway through Rogers Pass tonight. Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement warning of 10 to...

Pro-Palestinian protesters block access to container port in Metro Vancouver

Pro-Palestinian protesters block access to container port in Metro Vancouver

Delta Apr 15, 2024 / 11:24 am

Pro-Palestinian protesters have blocked access to a major container port terminal in Metro Vancouver. Terminal operator GCT Canada says "illegal...

B.C. home sales slide almost 10 per cent in March despite mortgage rate drop

B.C. home sales slide almost 10 per cent in March despite mortgage rate drop

Apr 15, 2024 / 10:27 am

Home sales in British Columbia fell by almost 10 per cent in March compared with the same period last year, in a slowdown an analyst says could be buyers...

Rob Shaw: Concerns over MNP worm their way through B.C.'s agriculture ministry

Rob Shaw: Concerns over MNP worm their way through B.C.'s agriculture ministry

Apr 15, 2024 / 9:44 am

The company at the centre of a conflict of interest probe over CleanBC grants also helped award government grants to companies it represents in the agriculture...

Eight years since B.C. declared public health emergency, toxic drug crisis rages on

Eight years since B.C. declared public health emergency, toxic drug crisis rages on

Apr 14, 2024 / 12:40 pm

Eight years to the day after British Columbia declared a public health emergency, Premier David Eby says the toxic drug crisis has had a "catastrophic...

Grieving mom raises awareness about toxic drug crisis in Prince George

Grieving mom raises awareness about toxic drug crisis in Prince George

Prince George Apr 14, 2024 / 9:30 am

At 15 he started using marijuana. Ten years later in 2019, Michelle Miller, a registered nurse, lost her son Tanner to toxic drug poisoning. “I am a mom...

New-era naval ship arrives at CFB Esquimalt on Monday

New-era naval ship arrives at CFB Esquimalt on Monday

Esquimalt Apr 14, 2024 / 6:45 am

The first of a new era of ships for the Royal Canadian Navy is arriving on the West Coast next week. HMCS Max Bernays left Halifax on March 11, made its way...

Hiker stuck in mud up to his hips for hours on Juan de Fuca trail

Hiker stuck in mud up to his hips for hours on Juan de Fuca trail

Vancouver Island Apr 14, 2024 / 6:35 am

It’s not unusual for hikers on the Juan de Fuca trail to sink up to their knees in mud, but a recent mud-related call was a first. Juan de Fuca Search and...

Household cats pose one of the biggest threats to bats in the BC Interior and beyond

Household cats pose one of the biggest threats to bats in the BC Interior and beyond

Thompson Okanagan Apr 13, 2024 / 3:19 pm

Bats may not rate high on the cute and cuddly scale, but the flying mammals play an important role in the ecosystem. According to the BC SPCA, bats perform...

Indian student shot and killed in Vancouver's Sunset neighbourhood Friday night

Indian student shot and killed in Vancouver's Sunset neighbourhood Friday night

Vancouver Apr 13, 2024 / 1:50 pm

A 24-year-old Indian student was killed in Vancouver Friday night. According to the Vancouver Police Department, Chirag Antil was found dead in a vehicle near...

Family calls for changes after Victoria man dies hours after being discharged from Royal Jubilee

Family calls for changes after Victoria man dies hours after being discharged from Royal Jubilee

Victoria Apr 13, 2024 / 7:45 am

BC United’s mental-health critic is proposing changes to improve communication with family members of patients in a ­mental-health crisis, in the wake...

Short-term rental owners fighting against province and City of Victoria

Short-term rental owners fighting against province and City of Victoria

Victoria Apr 13, 2024 / 7:00 am

Victoria’s Angela Mason joined a civil suit battling the ­province’s new short-term rental ­restrictions because she is...

B.C. rescue team regroups after little orca thwarts capture in remote lagoon

B.C. rescue team regroups after little orca thwarts capture in remote lagoon

Vancouver Island Apr 13, 2024 / 6:05 am

The team attempting to rescue an orphaned killer whale trapped in a remote B.C. lagoon is regrouping today after an initial attempt to capture the young orca...

Accused B.C. killer thought victim was a zombie

Accused B.C. killer thought victim was a zombie

Apr 12, 2024 / 9:15 pm

A B.C. man charged with second-degree murder in a 2022 Nanaimo stabbing has been found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder. James Carey Turok,...

B.C. court upholds road rage sentence

B.C. court upholds road rage sentence

Apr 12, 2024 / 9:00 pm

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has upheld the sentence of a man convicted of crimes stemming from a road rage incident. Brent Wei Kuen Chow pleaded guilty to...

Overdoses prompts B.C. First Nation to declare state of emergency

Overdoses prompts B.C. First Nation to declare state of emergency

Williams Lake Apr 12, 2024 / 6:02 pm

A spike in overdose deaths in the six British Columbia nations that make up the Tsilhqot'in National Government has prompted the chiefs to declare a local...

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