VANDERHOOF — A man who encountered a grizzly while walking on his own property in central B.C. escaped with a leg injury after scrambling under a barbed-wire fence. The provincial Conservation Officer Service says they responded to the attack on the rural property in Vanderhoof, then determined there is no
BURNABY — The union representing workers at the Kootenay Lake Ferry in B.C.'s Interior has filed an unfair labour practice complaint against the operator of the service. The BC General Employees' Union says in a news release that Western Pacific Marine has not given retroactive pay owed to workers since
VICTORIA — The American war with Iran isn't just a problem at the gas pump — B.C.'s minister of economic growth says fertilizer and pharmaceutical ingredients could also be in short supply. Ravi Kahlon says the federal government's move to suspend some taxes on fuel will likely be swallowed up
VANCOUVER — Gender-based violence is costing British Columbia an estimated $1.12 billion each year, says a new report commissioned by the provincial YWCA. The report, titled The Cost of Inaction: Measuring the Economic Impact of Gender-Based Violence in B.C., argues that investing in upstream services to prevent such violence will
SALMON ARM — Mounties in B.C.'s southern interior say a wild chase ended with two police cruisers being hit and a couch flying from the back of a pickup truck. RCMP say officers were called two weeks ago about a silver Dodge Dakota speeding and swerving all over the road.
VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier David Eby said he may extend the current legislative session to find support among individual First Nations over his plans to suspend parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. "Even now, we are engaging with chiefs to try to find a
VICTORIA — An international group that sets the compensation formula for maritime oil spills doesn’t factor in the devastating cultural losses to First Nations, says an Indigenous leader whose Coastal B.C. nation has experienced a disastrous fuel spill. Marilyn Slett, the elected chief of the Heiltsuk Nation on British Columbia's
VICTORIA — A bill by an Opposition Conservative in B.C.'s legislature about the health care of firefighters has passed through the legislature, an extremely rare occurrence for a private member's bill. The Firefighters’ Health Act, was brought forward by Langley-Walnut Grove MLA Misty Van Popta for first reading in May
