Category Archives: The Province

A small plane has crashed in Pitt Meadows, according to several reports.

The Province Marathon Team has been training since early January for today’s race. Read about their journey, and other important race details.

A man has been airlifted to hospital after being stabbed in Langley late Saturday night. Police were called to the 20600-block Eastleigh Crescent at about 10:10 p.m. after the 30-year-old man was stabbed in the abdomen.

Forklifts and basketball hoops don’t usually mix, but they were side-by-side Saturday at the 15th annual B.C. Championship Forklift Rally as the Cloverdale Agriplex. Close to 75 competitors took part in a number of tasks to show off their accuracy … Continue reading →

From the moment he first heard about the $6-million plea-bargain deal in the B.C. Rail scandal, John van Dongen has been on a quest for the truth. Now the former Liberal solicitor-general, who recently jumped to the B.C. Conservatives, is … Continue reading →

The Greater Vancouver Zoo has welcomed several new baby arrivals in the past week, including a zebra foal, squirrel monkeys and two Muskox calves.

An employee at recycling company Steel Pacific in Victoria was killed Saturday afternoon after apparently falling into a shredder.

Stargazers will be hoping for a few breaks in the clouds on Saturday as a “supermoon” rises over B.C.

A protest against coal exports Saturday at the White Rock pier resulted in the arranged arrests of 14 protesters.

The Calgary police homicide unit has taken over the investigation into the death of a 21-month-old girl who was rushed to hospital from a private day home.

The three main leaders of Quebec’s 12-week tuition strike explained Saturday night that the tentative agreement they reached with the government calls for creation of a “provisional council’” that would review spending by universities, turning over the savings the council … Continue reading →

The frustrated father of a young real estate agent murdered in 2008 while showing a $1-million Victoria-area home said he would offer a half-millon dollars for information leading to the conviction of the killer. “If somebody walked in and said, … Continue reading →

After the province green-lighted a gold and copper mine, which promises to bring 250 jobs to northwestern B.C., a First Nations group has signalled intent to fight the project because of “major contamination risk.” On Friday, Premier Christy Clark’s government … Continue reading →

President Barack Obama used his first large-scale rally of the 2012 campaign on Saturday to attack Republican Mitt Romney for learning the “wrong lessons” as a business chief executive, and promised to move the U.S. economy forward if he wins … Continue reading →

Unrepentant gangster Jarrod Bacon was hit with a tough 12-year sentence for drug conspiracy charges today in B.C. Supreme Court.

A guitar player whose love of blues music took him all across North America after first blossoming in Ottawa more than 40 years ago has died.

Our imprisoned blogger is surrounded by a lot of different groups, but none so exclusive — or less desirable to its own members — as the lifers.

Video released to CHEK News with permission of Victoria police Const. Lane Douglas-Hunt and her family

A catastrophic freeze has wiped out about 80 per cent of Ontario’s apple crop and has the province’s fruit industry looking at losses already estimated at more than $100 million.

Double lung transplant recipient Helene Campbell has been discharged from the hospital and is now at her home in Toronto.

A national atheist organization is lauding Friday’s reversal of a Nova Scotia school board ban on a Christian T-shirt worn by a Grade 12 student that was deemed offensive by some students and teachers at his school.

As children in Saanich enjoy a day off school Monday, more parents than usual may be calling in sick and staying home instead of going to work.

A South African cat emerges washed and rinsed but unharmed after nearly two hours trapped inside a washing machine.

Japanese utility Hokkaido Electric Power Co began shutting the country’s last active nuclear reactor on Saturday, leaving the world’s third-biggest user of atomic energy with no nuclear-derived electricity for the first time since 1970.

The UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples has called on the United States to mitigate the “sense of loss” among the Native American community by restoring some tribal lands.

The northern Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo saw a brutal day of gang violence Friday, with 14 headless bodies found stuffed in a vehicle and nine bodies found hanging from a bridge.

Bail has been granted to a hang-gliding pilot accused of swallowing evidence connected to the tragic death of his tandem passenger last Saturday. William Jonathan Orders, 50, is charged with obstruction of justice and has been in police custody since … Continue reading →

The B.C. Coroners Service has identified the remains of a deceased male found Wednesday by hikers in North Vancouver. A forensic dental comparison has confirmed the remains — found near Norvan Falls — are that of Vancouver’s Brian Safari Mbaruk, … Continue reading →

The whole world will be watching our women vie for soccer supremacy in 2015. And should the Canadian team reach the final game of the coast-to-coast tournament, Whitecaps President Bob Lenarduzzi says the chance that B.C. Place will host the … Continue reading →

With the help of an RCMP dog, B.C. Mounties found three men hiding in the walls of a home converted into a large marijuana grow-op producing an estimated $2.5 million in illegal drugs, according to a police release on Friday.

After a week of public criticism, B.C.’s social development minister abruptly has reversed course and agreed to pay for nutritional supplements for an Esquimalt woman fighting two cancers.

A 36-year-old man was charged Friday with manslaughter and criminal negligence in the shooting death of a toddler in Levis, near Quebec City.

A stunning seizure by the Canadian Border Services Agency has led to the arrest of a 28-year-old in Terrace. On April 16, CBSA agents at the Vancouver International Mail Centre x-rayed a parcel of flashlights from Hong Kong declared as … Continue reading →

Some of B.C.’s public school teachers are ignoring their union’s call to step away from extracurricular activities as part of the ongoing labour dispute with the government, an act of defiance that could lead to disciplinary action by the union.

Conrad Black returned to his Toronto home Friday after being released from prison in the U.S. earlier in the day.

A gas leak at a North Vancouver ice rink that was reported as a minor incident last fall may have put one of Canada’s most prominent athletes out of commission for life.