Author Archives: Bill Nation

A new report on B-C's auto insurance system suggests bringing back photo radar, capping payments for pain and suffering and making high-risk drivers pay more. The study by Ernst * Young says big chang...

Two former leaders of an isolated religious commune in British Columbia have been found guilty of practising polygamy. The verdicts against 60-year-old Winston Blackmore and 53-year-old James Oler com...

More than four thousand people are fighting about 150 wildfires burning across the province, including one that has forced the closure of a provincial park. The B-C Wildfire Service closed Mount Assin...

Officials say it's unclear when 30-thousand people forced from their homes by wildfires will be allowed to return. Residents of 100 Mile House and Princeton were given the okay to go home on Saturday,...

Another 225 members of the Canadian Armed Forces are being sent to B-C to help fight the fast-moving wildfires that have driven more than 45-thousand people from their homes. Public Safety Minister Mi...

B-C's new N-D-P premier says the province will soon go from last to third in the country when it comes to income assistance rates. John Horgan says monthly disability and income assistance rates will ...

A Courtenay man has pocket half a million dollars after winning the Extra on the June 21st Lotto 6/49 and BC/49 draws. Barry Manning says his weekly trips to the store usually include picking up a 20-...

More than 75 homes have been destroyed by wildfires burning across the province since the beginning of July. Cariboo Regional District Chairman Al Richmond says staff have counted 41 homes that have b...

B-C's new premier says he regrets having to extend a state of emergency for two more weeks due to wildfires sweeping across the Interior. But John Horgan says his N-D-P government's first priority is ...

The president of Kinder Morgan Canada says the company is on track to start construction of the Trans Mountain expansion project in September. Ian Anderson says in a news release that he looks forward...