June 2026

B.C. Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay is shaking up the party’s caucus leadership team, installing loyalists who backed her campaign in several key roles. Chilliwack North MLA Heather Maahs will lead the Official Opposition on an interim basis, presumably until Findlay can secure a seat through a byelection. This would require a sitting MLA to step […]

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In a historically bad year for wildfires across Canada, B.C. had 1,350 fires with an estimated 886,360 hectares of land burned across the province. When it came to fighting two of the worst fires in Vancouver Island’s history, BC Wildfire Service took advantage of Coulson Aviation’s successful night vision aerial firefighting program. Almost 15 years

The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) has confirmed that escaped inmate Ernest Egon Jensen, 69, has been found dead. In a statement released just after 2 p.m. today (June 29), CSC said Jensen was found “in the ocean off the coast of Metchosin.” West Shore RCMP said Jensen’s body was recovered near the shoreline along

A summer celebration turned tragic in Lumby over the weekend. Two pedestrians were hit by a truck on a rural property Saturday shortly before 12 p.m. Despite immediate first aid provided by youth witnesses and efforts of paramedics when they arrived, a 15-year-old Lumby youth died. A second youth, who was also struck by the