Author Archives: Bill Nation

B-C's Finance minister is looking for a way to improve how the province budgets for the wildfire season. Carole James says it is not ideal to have a placeholder amount set each spring that turns out y...

Most British Columbia residents will pay more for natural gas after an Enbridge pipeline exploded in October near Prince George. Fortis BC says it's received regulatory approval from the B.C. Utilitie...

Canada Post isn't making any promises on whether parcels mailed before Christmas will actually reach their destination on time. The Crown corporation says five weeks of rotating strikes that ended las...

No damage or injuries after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake off the west coast of Vancouver Island on Sunday. It happened at about 8:20 a.m was centered 149 kilometres southwest of Port Hardy. It was follo...

Sport fishing, tourism and business leaders are warning that new federal efforts to protect endangered southern resident killer whales could threaten almost 10-thousand jobs on Vancouver Island. The f...

The R-C-M-P says it had to call the Coast Guard to help arrest the operator of a fishing boat travelling in circles on the water north of Port Hardy. Police say they began searching for the vessel aft...

The provincial government has released a plan to dramatically cut pollution as it builds a low-carbon economy. Its key planks include a requirement that every new building constructed in the province ...

B-C Hydro is getting a good review from the province's auditor general for the way it's managing the dams, generating stations and power lines. Carol Bellringer says even though some generating facili...

The head of World Wildlife Fund Canada says the addition of more than a dozen B-C Chinook salmon populations to a federal list of at-risk species points to an ecosystem in crisis. C-E-O and president ...

First Nations leaders from B-C's north and central coast are in Ottawa urging the Senate to pass a bill preventing super-sized oil tankers in their region. There's already a moratorium on tankers carr...