Author Archives: Bill Nation

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Tom Petty, who drew upon bands he worshipped as a boy to create new classics, has died at 66. A spokeswoman says Petty died Monday night at U-C-L-A Medical Center in Los An...

Authorities in Las Vegas say at least 50 people have been killed and more than 200 injured in a shooting at a country music festival. Sheriff Joe Lombardo says both numbers are estimates, as the inves...

The Joint Rescue Co-Ordination Centre says the aircraft went down near the Campbell River airport on Sunday afternoon. The centre says local ambulance, fire crews and police responded to the scene, al...

The new leader of the federal N-D-P says he'll start meeting with caucus members today to talk about the party's direction. Jagmeet Singh takes over from Tom Mulcair after winning a first-ballot victo...

A ban on open fires that has been in place throughout the Coastal Fire Centre since early July is being lifted at noon on Friday. The centre says recent rainfall and cooler temperatures have reduced w...

Indigenous rights, environmental, and social justice activists staged sit-ins at the offices of B-C's provincial N-D-P Ministers in protest of open pen fish farms. Hereditary Chief Ernest Alfred has b...

Fisheries and Oceans Canada says most of the recommendations made in a 2012 report on revitalizing B-C's sockeye salmon run have been acted on. But the federal department says only 1.5 million salmon ...

Insurance Bureau of Canada says just two huge wildfires -- the Elephant Hill blaze west of Kamloops and a series of fires that combined into one massive wildfire in the Cariboo -- caused more than 127...

B-C's Forests minister says work is underway to salvage timber from a number of fire zones after the worst wildfire season on record in the province. Doug Donaldson says an estimated 53 million cubic ...

Playboy says its founder, Hugh Hefner, has died of natural causes at the age of 91. The pipe-smoking hedonist revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s and went on to build a multimedia empire of c...