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Police investigating series of extortion threats linked with shooting in B.C.

Police investigating series of extortion threats linked with shooting in B.C.

WHITE ROCK, B.C. — Mounties in British Columbia say they are investigating a series of extortion threats that police say may be linked.
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Tens of thousands of B.C. residents received free contraception in eight months

Tens of thousands of B.C. residents received free contraception in eight months

About 188,000 people have received free prescription contraception since British Columbia became the first province to offer it in April.
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Digital bus fare payment option launching next year in qathet

Digital bus fare payment option launching next year in qathet

Public engagement sessions to be held at Town Centre mall and library
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Province withholds environment minister’s travel budget for UN conference in Dubai

Province withholds environment minister’s travel budget for UN conference in Dubai

B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman’s travel expenses to be released once all costs are tabulated, says spokesman
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Woman blames speeding logging trucks for death of her mother

Woman blames speeding logging trucks for death of her mother

Audrey Currie, a 63-year-old mother of four and grandmother, died in the Sunday afternoon crash south of Sicamous in B.C.'s southern interior
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Parksville mother says cancer spread during chemotherapy wait

Parksville mother says cancer spread during chemotherapy wait

The 43-year-old worries late-stage patients like herself are being sidelined in an overwhelmed cancer-care system
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Driver involved in fatal 2019 Kelowna collision acquitted of criminal charge

Driver involved in fatal 2019 Kelowna collision acquitted of criminal charge

A 30-year-old Burnaby man was killed in a serious crash in the early morning hours of Aug. 13, 2019
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Kamloops wildfire research institute gets final approval

Kamloops wildfire research institute gets final approval

The Institute of Wildfire Science, Adaptation and Resiliency aims to conduct research aimed at preventing, mitigating, responding to and recovering from wildfires.
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Kamloops lawyer's first-degree murder moved to Lower Mainland

Kamloops lawyer's first-degree murder moved to Lower Mainland

Butch Bagabuyo, 55, is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying last year of Mohd Abdullah, a computer sciences professor at Thompson Rivers University
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B.C.'s biggest community forest receives wildfire protection funding

B.C.'s biggest community forest receives wildfire protection funding

The Fort Nelson Community Forest was formed when the license was awarded to the Fort Nelson First Nation and Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, who have partnered to share 200,000 hectares of timbered land. 
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