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Murderer back behind bars after nearly killing man while at halfway house

Ryan Quigley was released from custody in July to a halfway house somewhere in B.C.'s central interior after stabbing his fiancée to death in 2014

Nov 24, 2023 4:59 AM Read more >

Okanagan man gets more jail time for cutting open Good Samaritan's face

Randolph Dionne, 65, pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon, theft and breach of release order in BC Provincial Court in Penticton Thursday.

Nov 24, 2023 4:06 AM Read more >

City of Penticton lifts evacuation order for homes threatened by precarious rock

PENTICTON, B.C. — The City of Penticton, B.C., says it's lifting an evacuation order for 25 homes in a mobile home park that were threatened by a potential rock slide.

Nov 23, 2023 6:12 PM Read more >

Jewish association wants Vancouver pro-Palestine group banned

Samidoun opposes Canada's 2002 designation of Hamas as a terrorist group.

Nov 23, 2023 5:30 PM Read more >

B.C. minister's memo on 'big and shiny' affordability plan lands in Opposition hands

VICTORIA — A British Columbia cabinet minister says she mistakenly dropped a memo to herself describing a "big and shiny" affordability measure that mysteriously ended up in the hands of the Opposition BC United party.

Nov 23, 2023 5:24 PM Read more >

'Unacceptable' illicit substances found in air at Victoria supportive housing facility

Cool Aid, which operates the Tally Ho facility on Douglas Street, says measures are being put in place to reduce the smoke and protect staff

Nov 23, 2023 4:26 PM Read more >

B.C. Director of Civil Forfeiture claims 10 properties owned by alleged drug dealer

VICTORIA — The B.C. government wants 10 properties in Prince George forfeited for their alleged use in a years-long drug trafficking operation. The province's Director of Civil Forfeiture claims in a lawsuit filed in B.C.

Nov 23, 2023 3:34 PM Read more >

Shots fired twice in two days in Surrey business complex

Two recent incidents at the same place raises public concern, police say.

Nov 23, 2023 3:23 PM Read more >

Metro Vancouver mayors say they need billions of dollars from feds to grow transit

VANCOUVER — Metro Vancouver mayors say they need billions of dollars over the next few years and a more reliable funding model from the federal government in order to improve transit.

Nov 23, 2023 1:25 PM Read more >

Automatic gunfire, armed soldiers in Vancouver this weekend for urban training

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver-based light infantry unit of the Canadian Army is asking residents to not be alarmed if they hear automatic gunfire this weekend around the site of the former Molson-Coors brewery.

Nov 23, 2023 12:13 PM Read more >