Category Archives: Local News

R-C-M-P say two confirmed sightings on Monday and no reports of stolen vehicles in the northern Manitoba community of Gillam lead them to believe two teenagers suspected in the deaths of three people ...

Health Minister Adrian Dix says over 37 thousand more kindergarten to Grade 12 children were fully immunized between April and June as part of the province's catch-up campaign in the wake of 29 cases ...

The mayors of Victoria, Tofino, Squamish and Rossland are applauding the B-C government for launching consultations on ways to reduce plastic pollution. Environment Minister George Heyman says the mes...

Two teens who were initially listed as missing in northern B-C are now considered armed, dangerous suspects in the murders of two young tourists and an unidentified older man. R-C-M-P Sergeant Janelle...

Premier John Horgan says he did not expect the overwhelming response to a provincial survey about keeping -- or dumping -- daylight saving time. More than 223-thousand people took part in the four-wee...

Residents in northern B-C are on edge following a double murder last week, the discovery of a man's body and the disappearance of two Port Alberni teens. In the case of the double murder, police have ...

B-C's Attorney General says the province has re-filed its lawsuit against Alberta's so-called ``turn off the taps'' law with the Federal Court, after an judge stayed the lawsuit in Alberta's superior ...

The Green party says a plan to protect 54 of the province's largest and oldest trees from the risk of being harvested is inadequate. Forests Minister Doug Donaldson says a one-hectare buffer zone will...

An injured humpback whale that was spotted off Cape Lazo in Comox last summer has returned to local waters. Peter Hamilton with the ecology group Lifeforce says he noticed last month that the juvenvil...

B-C ended its fiscal year with an operating surplus of 1.5 billion dollars despite a softening real estate market that meant less revenue from property transfer taxes. Finance Minister Carole James re...