Author Archives: Bill Nation

A flotilla of American kayakers took to the water yesterday to protest Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Thirty Seattle residents paddled toward one of the company's large oil...

The federal government has announced more than 12-million dollars in funding to help protect the iconic southern resident killer whales off the B-C coast. Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc...

Premier John Horgan and Washington Governor Jay Inslee will make an announcement about ultra-high-speed corridor service connecting Vancouver with Seattle and Portland. The idea of a high-speed rail l...

Union of B-C Municipalities says it's still trying to reach a deal with the province on sharing legal marijuana tax revenues with local governments. The group's president Wendy Booth says work is cont...

B-C Green Party leader Andrew Weaver is making another attempt to lower the voting age in the province to 16. Weaver has for the third time introduced a private member's bill that would make the chang...

Internationally renowned scientist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. His children say their father passed away peacefully at his home in Cambridge, England. Hawking was diagnosed with A-L-A a...

Transport Canada says 1.3 million dollars is being made available to help coastal communities clear out abandoned vessels. The funding will go toward assessing and removing abandoned boats from ports ...

Elections B-C has released its official report on last year's provincial election, and the data shows a slight increase in voter participation. The report says 57.7 per cent of eligible voters cast a ...

The province has announced plans to upgrade red light cameras at some of B-C's most crash-prone intersections to also target high-speed drivers. The government says in a release that an average of 84 ...

B-C's environment minister says he's not worrying about Alberta politics after the latest threats over the Trans Mountain pipeline dispute. Premier Rachel Notely said ahead of her government's throne ...