2 hospitalized after seaplane goes down in Vancouver: officials (www.cbc.ca)
Two people have been hospitalized after a seaplane collided with a boat in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour near Stanley Park on Saturday, officials confirmed....
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Two people have been hospitalized after a seaplane collided with a boat in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour near Stanley Park on Saturday, officials confirmed....
Much of the Sumas Prairie was once a shallow, freshwater lake until the B.C. government drained it in the 1920s, converting it into agricultural land for settlers and displacing the Sumas First Nation....
Premier David Eby announced Friday (June 7) that BC Emergency Health Services is replacing its existing fleet with 12 new Beechcraft King Air 360CHW air ambulances. Several of those have been in operation since May 1, and the full new fleet will be in operation by next fall, he said.
Steve Nelson didn’t see any sign of fire when the alarm went off at noon at the Keefer Rooms....
Gitanyow Elder Darlene Vegh drips fire onto a patch of dry leaves, moss and twigs on a ridge above Xsit’ax (Kitwanga River) on Wilp Gwaas Hlaam lands in northwest B.C. It’s a clear spring day a few weeks after the winter snowmelt exposed the forest floor. The orange light of the little flames dancing along the ground is soft...
A statement from the Consulate General of France in Vancouver says Vogelgesang will be decorated as a Knight of the Legion of Honour to acknowledge his contribution and bravery in the liberation of France.
“He’ll advise us on new tools and give us advice to help this very specific group of people so they get the help they need, and our communities are safe and healthy for everyone,” Eby told a news conference Wednesday.
City zoning was restricted to single-unit and two-unit, or duplex, dwellings, on these low-density residential properties, but the province made mandatory legislative changes in December in an effort to produce more housing in British Columbia at an accelerated pace to deal with the ongoing housing crisis.
A Vancouver police officer who could be facing a disciplinary hearing following the violent 2015 death of Myles Gray is now working as a school liaison officer at a Vancouver secondary school....
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Some of the most fertile land in southern B.C.’s Fraser Valley is the former lake-bed of Semá:th Xhotsa (Sumas Lake), where water has been held back for a century. The region, which once supported an ancient Indigenous food system, has been home to farms and ranches since it was drained in 1924. But during the disastrous 2021...
Political scientists see the Conservative Party of B.C. in the driver-seat when it comes to challenging the B.C. NDP, but it is not clear whether the provincial Tories will make in-roads in vote-rich urban B.C....
“A made-in-B.C. solution to improve organ-matching could revolutionize outcomes for kidney transplant recipients,” read the agency’s description of the project.
A company has missed its deadline to remove thousands of tons of illegally dumped waste from a farm near Cultus Lake in B.C.'s Columbia Valley....
The Vancouver area’s real estate board says the number of homes that changed hands in May fell 19.9 per cent compared to the same month last year as more new properties continued to hit the market....
“On the biggest issues, including affordable housing, cancelling decriminalization of deadly drugs, fixing our broken health-care system, making our streets safe, and putting our natural resources to work growing jobs and our economy, the Conservatives make sense as that new coalition,” said Sturko.
The unnamed company was suspected of selling and distributing illegal cannabis from their Surrey headquarters, with additional properties located in Maple Ridge and Mission as well.
Fighting a rent increase for herself and neighbours through B.C.’s Residential Tenancy Branch has taken Nanaimo tenant and housing activist Dianne Varga years of effort, generated a pile of paper and, in her view, achieved nothing....
Even as Kootenay Lake’s shoreline continues to be “degraded” a new strategic plan is being developed to slow and eventually halt illegal development on main body of water in the area....
The idea that your name could unconsciously determine your job or hobby is backed by some psychologists