Author Archives: Bill Nation

Health officials and the Coroners Service of British Columbia are expected to release the total number of overdose fatalities in 2017 today, while the current death toll already exceeds records. The B...

B-C's Attorney General says major reforms are on the way to extinguish a ``financial dumpster fire'' at the province's public auto insurer. David Eby says the Insurance Corporation of B.C. has posted ...

Three Comox Valley high schools will reopen their doors to students on Friday following a security scare that prompted a closure. The trio of schools were closed by the Comox Valley School District af...

Comox Valley School District closed Vanier, Mark R. Isfeld and Highland highs schools on Thursday as a precautionary measure. District 71 decided on the move after talking with the R-C-M-P. Staff is w...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to bring his cross-Canada town hall tour to Nanaimo next week. The Prime Minister's Office confirms that Trudeau will hold a meeting in the harbour city on Fe...

Doctor Perry Kendall is resigning after nearly 20 years as B-C's provincial health officer. Kendall declared a public health emergency over the overdose crisis in 2016 and has called the opioid epidem...

A snowboarder has died at Mount Washington Alpine Resort. Officials at the resort say the victim was found unresponsive on Monday afternoon in a treed area. He had been snowboarding off-trail but with...

An expert in B-C is supporting a decision by emergency officials to issue a tsunami alert after Tuesday morning's 7.9-magnitude earthquake in the Gulf of Alaska. Residents of many coastal communities ...

Domino's Pizza says a delivery driver has been fired after a concierge at a Surrey building reported seeing the man on video eating pizza toppings while in an elevator. Harry Sethi, owner of Eureka Se...

The National Tsunami Center has cancelled a tsunami warning that was triggered by a powerful earthquake off the coast of Alaska. Mickey Varnadao, a computer specialist with the warning centre in Palme...