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Crews battle wildfire at Cinnabar Creek, northwest of Kelowna
A wildfire on the west side of Okanagan Lake was subsiding Wednesday night, after an evacuation alert was issued earlier in the day. The fire, which was about 1.5 hectares in size as of 5 p.m....
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Two hereditary Haida chiefs stripped of titles for supporting Enbridge
The extraordinary decision by a Haida clan to strip two of its hereditary chiefs of their titles for secretly supporting the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline is being closely watched by...
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Vancouver police investigate targeted shooting in Downtown Eastside
Vancouver police are investigating a targeted shooting in the Downtown Eastside Wednesday evening that sent one man to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police were called to Columbia and...
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Abbotsford police investigate fatal shooting incident
A man is dead after a shooting incident in an Abbotsford neighbourhood. On Wednesday night at around 9 p.m., gunshots rang out in the 3100-block of Crown Court. APD officers responded and found an...
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Viral Fighting Championship #1: Baby the cat vs. Justin Trudeau
Victoria’s Baby the cat has become an Internet sensation after Postmedia News reported her derring-do in protecting her owners as seven large dogs walked past her house. The viral story of how she...
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Family sues B.C. funeral home, alleging mom was cremated before service
Four siblings are suing a Vernon funeral home after it allegedly cremated the body of their 90-year-old mother without their knowledge — before they could say their goodbyes at a memorial service. John...
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B.C.'s poor need a break on Hydro bills, says poverty expert
Many of B.C.’s poor are faced with having to decide between heating their homes and feeding their families, an expert testified at a B.C. Utilities Commission hearing on Thursday. Seth Klein, director...
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Fraser Valley real estate board calls on members to fight foreign buyers' tax
The Fraser Valley Real Estate Board has issued a “call to action” to its 3,000 members, asking them to fight the new 15-per-cent tax levied on foreign home buyers. In an email on Aug. 16, board...
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Female jogger assaulted in Comox
Comox Valley RCMP is investigating the assault of a female jogger early Thursday. Police said the assault in Condor Park in Comox happened at 10:30 a.m. when a male grabbed the woman, who fought back...
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B.C. RCMP search Vancouver Island property for disappeared teen after tip in...
COMOX VALLEY — Mounties in Comox Valley have searched and excavated a rural property after receiving a tip from the public about a 23-year-old missing person’s case. Fourteen-year-old Lindsey Nicholls...
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Northern Gateway exposes divides in First Nations governance
The dispute over who in the powerful Haida Nation can speak publicly on divisive issues such as the Enbridge Northern Gateway project is revealing how First Nations’ traditional clan-based methods of...
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Nanaimo hole-digger living the dream after $21M lottery win
A Nanaimo man is already living the dream after winning the $21-million jackpot in last Saturday’s Lotto 6/49 draw. “I bought two BMWs. One for me and one for my friend,” the 52-year-old Bill Laharty...
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Real-time sales numbers show a decline in 'average' Vancouver home prices
Earlier this month, as surging Vancouver luxury home prices were making international headlines and local real estate boards reported continued price spikes, another set of gauges was telling a...
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Criminal lawyer faces charges of uttering threats, resisting arrest
A longtime criminal lawyer has been charged with uttering a threat and resisting police following an incident at a North Vancouver park. Neil Lonsdale Cobb is accused of four offences, including...
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Vancouver filmmaker denies she defamed collaborators in production of horror...
A Vancouver filmmaker denies she defamed two filmmakers who helped her in the production of a horror film. In a lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court, Jennifer Soska and her sister, Sylvia Soska, alleged...
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Daphne Bramham: Nature is in control here, not us
LANCASTER SOUND, Nunavut — At 7:30 a.m., it was three degrees Celsius with a 25- to 30-knot wind. A few hours earlier, we had made a U-turn out of Powell Bay where we had expected to go ashore for a...
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Hot, dry, windy weather sparks wildfire warning
British Columbia is experiencing a mild forest fire season compared to last year’s record-breaker, but B.C. Wildfire Service officials are warning this weekend’s predicted hot, dry weather could see a...
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PNE reinvents itself again with Angry Birds and Oreo renaissance
As sales manager for the Pacific National Exhibition, Peter Male spends a considerable amount of time studying trends. “We pay attention to lifestyle change, being aware of what’s going on around you,...
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Schwarzenegger movie set disrupted by bank robber
That definitely wasn’t in the script: The set of a new Arnold Schwarzenegger action-comedy became the location for a real-life bank robbery. On Thursday, while the Cloverdale location was ablaze with...
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Refugees displaced by Coquitlam fire still without permanent homes
Ten Syrian refugee families who were displaced late last month by a fire in the Coquitlam apartment complex where they were staying are still without a permanent place to live. They are living at the...
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