Category Archives: Local News
SPCA-Animal Cruelty
The S-P-C-A has started an investigation into a cruelty case involving a yellow Labrador retriever staff have named Buttercup. The society says someone taped her muzzle shut, leaving cuts across her f...
Feb 17, 2023
BC Overdose Crisis
B-C's toxic drug crisis killed 2,272 people across the province last year and more than 11-thousand since the public health emergency was declared in 2016. The B-C Coroners Service has released number...
Feb 01, 2023 emon halim / CC
OBIT-Bobby Hull
Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Hull has died at the age of 84. He played for the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks and Hartford Whalers as well as the World Hockey Association's Winnipeg Jets over a 23-year pro ca...
Jan 30, 2023 Community Archives
State Of Local Emergency
Further investigation into the landslide that occurred behind 738 Island Highway South on Tuesday, January 17, 2023, highlighted matters in need of further investigation that may pose risks to the sur...
Jan 20, 2023 David Ashleydale / CC
BC House Building Permitting
The British Columbia government is creating a single hub for developers to get provincial approval for their projects in another step to tackle the housing shortage. Premier David Eby says homebuildin...
Jan 17, 2023 pnwra / CC
BC Nurses Supports
B-C will pay fees for international nurses and help finance former nurses who want to return to health care in a push to get more workers into the system. Premier David Eby says the government will al...
Jan 10, 2023 Hey Paul Studios / CC
BC Ambluance Paramedics Reach Proposed Deal
Ambulance paramedics and dispatchers in British Columbia have reached a tentative contract with the provincial government after mediated negotiations. A joint statement Saturday from the Health Employ...
Jan 09, 2023 Taber Andrew Bain / CC
BC Winter Weather
A near weeklong swath of extreme cold warnings is slowly being lifted across British Columbia, but as frigid conditions ease, new risks arrive in the form of freezing rain, rain and potential flooding...
Dec 23, 2022 Marco Metzler / CC
BC Arctic Chill
Temperature are dropping to dangerously cold extremes in many regions of British Columbia as snowfall sent tires spinning in parts of Metro Vancouver. Environment Canada says wind chill values are dro...
Dec 19, 2022 Ryan Hallock / CC
BC Turkey Shortage
The B-C Poultry Association says the avian flu is causing a turkey shortage in the province ahead of the high-demand Christmas season. Spokeswoman Amanda Brittain says the association is anticipating ...
Dec 05, 2022 Mike_fleming / CC
