B.C. News

SURREY, B.C. — City council in Surrey, B.C., has voted to send a plan to the province to keep the RCMP as its police force, saying it would save $235 million over five years.

"The way I thought about it, when am I ever going to go to the Middle East? I thought I might as well go and take that experience in." ~ Matt Liknes

Santa used a B.C. Ambulance Service helicopter to visit children and their families at a number of B.C. hospitals Tuesday, beginning at Victoria General Hospital then heading to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital

The number of non-residents paying for births in B.C. hospitals has dropped over 80 per cent compared to pre-pandemic levels. The decline is attributed to China's travel restrictions, says an immigration policy expert.

Vancouver Island dance duo Funkanometry capped its best year to date with a shout-out from Annie Lennox that sent its social-media accounts into overdrive.

Family of the late Betty Swift hopes Link Island becomes a location for climate-change research

Neighbours saw flames coming through the roof of the older three-storey building. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Candice Servatius, whose appeal was dismissed on Monday, had taken issue with a smudging practice carried out in 2015 by a Nuu-chah-nulth elder in a Port Alberni classroom

“It’s crazy because at about 9:50 on the 6th the fire had started, and on the 9th about 9:50 we were holding baby.”

Water fowl, raptors and even crows and ravens are likely seeing untold losses, say Island wildlife rescue organizations.