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Drone images show trapped B.C. orca calf is healthy female, Fisheries Department says
April 05, 2024 - 5:57 PM

ZEBALLOS, B.C. - The young killer whale stranded in the lagoon off Vancouver Island is a girl.
Budget funding for BC Wildfire Service garners mixed reaction from experts
February 23, 2022 - 1:24 PM

VANCOUVER - A fire ecologist says new provincial funding to expand the BC Wildfire Service to a year-round endeavour is a welcome step toward preventing disasters, while others in the field say the funds could be better spent elsewhere.
Canada set to become largest country with legal pot sales
October 09, 2018 - 10:54 PM

DELTA, B.C. - Mat Beren and his friends used to drive by the vast greenhouses of southern British Columbia and joke about how much weed they could grow there.
Legal pot may breathe life into small Canadian towns hit by resource losses
August 06, 2017 - 4:00 AM

DUNCAN, B.C. - In a tree-nestled First Nation community on Vancouver Island, forestry and farming used to be the major industries that kept the economy humming and put food on families' tables.
Pipeline pitch: Registry reveals Enbridge's heavy presence in halls of power
August 23, 2012 - 2:35 PM

VANCOUVER - It has been said that there are no true friends in politics ... but there are plenty of them.
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Kelowna winery says accountant took almost a half-million dollars
The owners of a Kelowna winery and golf course allege their former controller took nearly $450,000 in just 30 months on the job. The Turton Group, which owns The View winery as well as Orchard Greens golf course and a rental business, is su

No weed, just beer: Bavaria bans smoking cannabis at Oktoberfest and beer gardens
BERLIN (AP) — You can get drunk at Bavaria's world-famous Oktoberfest, but don't get high. The southern German state will ban smoking cannabis at public festivals, inside beer gardens, and even at the Oktoberfest, the world

B.C. home sales slide almost 10 per cent in March despite mortgage rate drop
VANCOUVER - Home sales in British Columbia fell by almost 10 per cent in March compared with the same period last year, in a slowdown an analyst says could be buyers waiting for lower interest rates. The B.C. Real Estate Association says th

Drone images show trapped B.C. orca calf is healthy female, Fisheries Department says