B.C. News

Threats posted on the doors of the University of Victoria’s Multifaith Centre cancelled last week’s Friday prayers

NANAIMO, B.C. — Vancouver Island University has issued a trespass notice to pro-Palestinian protesters, telling them to vacate their encampment on the campus in Nanaimo, B.C., by Monday.

VICTORIA — Members of the Heiltsuk Nation on British Columbia's central coast are celebrating the first steps in the repatriation process for an elaborately carved chief's seat.

VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver, B.C., say a three-year investigation has led to the arrests of six people allegedly connected to a "sophisticated" organized crime group.

Kenneth Boychuk, who played for the Nanaimo Buccaneers at the time, was accused by a 17-year-old girl of coming to her home uninvited and sexually assaulting her

RICHMOND, B.C. — A union representing 320 production workers, machinists and maintenance personnel for a boating manufacturing company in Richmond, B.C., say it has averted a work stoppage.

The notice requests that students dismantle their camp and vacate by 8 a.m. July 15

KEREMEOS, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Police in British Columbia say four people are dead after a highway collision in the southern Interior, part of a spate of multiple-fatality crashes in the province in the past week.

PORT ALICE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Earthquakes Canada says a 6.4 magnitude quake in the Pacific was "lightly felt" on Vancouver Island Thursday morning. The agency says the powerful quake at 8:08 a.m.

VANCOUVER — First Nations along British Columbia's coast have announced with the Canadian government the designation of the country's largest marine protected area.