B.C. has signed a declaration along with coastal First Nation leaders calling on the federal government to uphold the North Coast tanker ban. “We call on the federal government to recognize what generations of leaders have: We need to protect our coasts in order to grow our economy,” Premier David Eby said on Wednesday (Nov. […]

A report from Technical Safety BC has identified a home furnace as the origin of the carbon monoxide (CO) that claimed a Castlegar man’s life earlier this year. The Castlegar Fire Department was called to a residence in the 3400 block of 4 Ave. at 10:02 a.m. on Feb. 24. When they arrived, high levels

The man convicted in August in connection with the fatal shooting eight years ago of Nicholas Khabra in South Surrey is alleging his rights to a trial within a reasonable time were violated. Defence counsel Reza Mansoori-Dara confirmed Tuesday (Nov. 4) that delay is the basis of an application seeking to stay the convictions reached

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so many, to so few.” Winston Churchill’s iconic words defined the early part of World War II. They were given in a wartime speech (now known as “The Few”) in the British House of Commons 85 years ago on Aug. 20, 1940. It

In a secret location in the back room of a building in Maple Ridge, the shutters are closed and the self-proclaimed Poppy Princesses are hard at work. Armed only with a coin counter, the women sit and count, for hours, the money coming in from the Royal Canadian Legion’s poppy campaign. Helen Sullivan, 86, has