The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs is stepping into the growing fray over two new First Nations treaties currently before the provincial legislature, calling for a pause until outstanding land claims by other tribes are resolved. “Reconciliation cannot be achieved through incomplete or unilateral processes,” Grand Chief Stewart Phillip said in a Wednesday news release. […]

A senior Langley RCMP officer has been convicted for the second time of assaulting a suspect, kicking him in the head while he was lying on the floor of a cell, according to just-released ruling from the B.C. Supreme Court. Justice Terence Schultes handed down his verdict on Nov. 26 last year, but it was

A five-year jail sentence — one year more than the mandatory minimum — was imposed on a woman convicted of manslaughter with a firearm. Lona Lynette Cole, 53, learned her fate in BC Supreme Court in Quesnel on April 9, almost a year after Justice Marguerite Church found her guilty of killing her intimate partner,

Police arrived to arrest an accused murderer at a Coquitlam residence in the week before last Christmas, and somebody flung a handgun and a bag of drugs and cash out a window. The Director of Civil Forfeiture recently filed a claim to keep cash recovered during that arrest of Alan Mohammed Taheri. Taheri, 31, is

Newly released photos are highlighting the scale of a landslide that forced evacuations in Old Fort earlier this week. An evacuation order was issued for the Old Fort area following a landslide the evening of Monday, April 20. As of Wednesday, April 22, the evacuation order was still in effect, according to EmergencyInfoBC. The PRRD