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Livestock producers push back against Canada’s new traceability regulations

More consultation needed before making any changes in animal movement regulations, say producers

The B.C. Securities Commission has ruled against several people involved with Core Capital Partners over a scheme to artificially inflate the value of two companies.

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B.C. brothers found liable in 2 multi-million-dollar stock schemes

BC Securities Commission ruling outlines ‘pump-and-dump’ cases

The Chilliwack School District. (Chilliwack Progress file)

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B.C. teacher suspended for screening graphic film of industrial accident

Film shown to class appeared to show someone reaching into a lathe and getting pulled in

G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital in Quesnel, B.C.

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Northern Health launches new tool to track emergency department closures

The website is designed to inform the public in real time about the status of local ERs

The Arrowsmith Tennis Club is against plans to convert one of these courts into a pickleball court. (PQB News file photo)

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Tennis club against plan to convert Qualicum Beach court to pickleball facility

Organization says ‘leave it alone’

The small Bedouin community of Ras al-Auja, located in the occupied West Bank northwest of Jericho, is seen here in a 2024 satellite image. The United Nations says the village will soon be replaced by Israeli settlement. (Google Earth)

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Palestinian villagers forced from homes day after B.C. sister city pitch

United Nations says Israeli settlement has wiped out the West Bank community Ras al-Auja

Signs brought by family and friends to the sentencing hearing in Kelowna of Ka-Mikosit Mae Favelle for manslaguhter in relation to the death of Adam Briand-Lawrence in 2022.

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Kelowna manslaughter case continues as Crown presses for 7 year sentence

Psychiatric report states the accused is at high risk to reoffend if she continues using drugs and alcohol

Sara Gillooly spoke to reporters at the B.C. legislature on Wednesday, Jan. 21, about delays in her cancer treatment. (Mark Page/Black Press Media)

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Nearly half of B.C. cancer patients wait longer than benchmarks to see an oncologist

Those in the 90th percentile are being forced to wait eight-to-10 weeks

A black bear looking rather disheveled was snapped in Port Renfrew on April 12. (Courtesy of Jennifer Heinrichs)

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2025 saw the lowest number of black bears killed in B.C. in a decade

The West Coast had the most, with 47 killed for public safety reasons and 2 euthanized

Statue of Lady Justice at B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster. (Tom Zytaruk/Surrey Now-Leader)

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Prolific criminal dodges dangerous offender designation

Judge instead designates him a long-term offender