Author Archives: Bill Nation

Nearly half a billion dollars has been spent fighting wildfires across B-C this year and fire officials warn that the season isn't over just yet. Kevin Skrepnek with the B-C Wildfire Service says the ...

Premier John Horgan's New Democrats are set to unveil their first financial plan for the province on Monday. Finance Minister Carole James will present a budget update in the Legislature this afternoo...

Now a Category 1 storm, hurricane Irma is expected to weaken to tropical storm status as it moves over northern Florida or southern Georgia on Monday. But Irma is still dangerous as it heads towards t...

B-C's minority New Democrat government is set to table a throne speech on Friday outlining its political blueprint. The return to the legislature comes after months of tension, upheaval and backroom m...

A financial institution says British Columbia's economy has ``fired on nearly all cylinders'' this year. The Central 1 Credit Union is forecasting growth for 2017 at 3.5 per cent and says B-C's econom...

A popular pod of Southern Resident killer whales has returned to their feasting grounds off Southern Vancouver Island. For the first time in two months, a large pod of 24 killer whales has returned to...

B-C's forests ministry says it will take at least five years for the province's forestry industry to recover from this year's devastating fire season. More than 12-hundred wildfires have sparked acros...

The forecast calls for showers across B-C in the coming days but a fire official says it likely won't end the devastating wildfire season. Kevin Skrepnek of the B-C Wildfire Service says the expected ...

Attorney General David Eby says the previous B-C government is to blame for the fact that drivers will see their insurance rates go up. Eby says I-C-B-C is asking the provincial utilities commission t...

Police say a -- quote -- ``freak accident'' at a golf course on Vancouver Island could have had tragic consequences. Constable Gary O'Brien with Nanaimo R-C-M-P says a man was playing the 16th hole of...