BC Coroner's Service: Stay away from high streams and rivers
The Victoria Day long weekend is upon us, and if you're going to be near streams or rivers, be careful. Â The BC Coroners' service says they're running much faster and higher than normal right now....
View ArticleA former Delta man gets jail sentence for sexual assault
A former Delta resident has finally been sentenced for sexually assaulting three children in the 1960s and 70s. Â Jamieson Glendinning has been handed a prison sentence of more than three years but he...
View ArticleSenate scandal claims PM's chief of staff
The Prime Minister's Chief of Staff has stepped down in light of the Senate expense scandal.In a statement issued Sunday morning, Nigel Wright says Stephen Harper has accepted his resignation.The Prime...
View ArticleWheelchair-bound woman robbed in Agassiz: Husband pleads for her medications...
The RCMP in Agassiz is asking for the public's help in locating a thief who knocked a woman out of her wheelchair and dragged her on the ground by her purse on Friday afternoon.Corporal Dwayne Farlin...
View ArticleFive years since death of Alexa Middelaer
This weekend marks the fifth anniversary of the tragic death of four year old Alexa Middelaer. Â Alexa was struck and killed by an impaired driver in Delta. Â Laurel Middelaer is Alexa's mother. Â She...
View ArticleNDP ethics critic says senate scandal undermines public's trust
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Chief of Staff may have resigned this morning, but that does not mean the senate scandal is going away.Nigel Wright stepped down after it was found out he wrote a...
View ArticleDetla South's MLA disappointed she stands alone
The lone independent candidate to win a riding in last week's election says BC has a polarized electorate.  When Vicki Huntington won the Delta South riding, it was the first time an independent was...
View ArticleSea-to-Sky crash sends three people to hospital
Three people have been airlifted to hospital after a crash on the Sea-to-Sky Hwy just north of Squamish. Â Squamish RCMP say a truck traveling southbound lost control, hit a tree before plunging down a...
View ArticleA Vancouver MP not shocked but concerned with the Senate expense scandal
A Vancouver MP says she's not surprised Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff has resigned after it was discovered he cut a 90 thousand dollar cheque to Senator Mike Duffy. Â The cheque was...
View ArticleTwo people recovering in hospital after a fall along Chehalis river
A father and son are recovering in separate hospitals after falling down a 100-foot embankment on the Chehalis river in Agassiz last evening.Searchers found the 35 year old man and his 9 year old son...
View ArticleLarge search around Galiano turns up nothing
Lots of action on and around Galliano Island early this morning.The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre says some people out camping heard someone call for help.They called back, asking where they were,...
View ArticleB.C. on high alert for new coronavirus: health officer
With a new coronavirus causing concern in Saudi Arabia and brief pockets elsewhere overseas, B.C.'s chief medical officer says this province is on high alert.Dr. Perry Kendall says B.C. is often the...
View ArticleHarper speaks out on Senate scandal
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has broken his silence on the latest scandal rocking the Conservative government involving the disallowed expenses of a prominent senator.Saying “no government can be...
View ArticleCanadian man missing in Mexico previously charged with drug offences
A Canadian man missing in Mexico had a troubled past.Diego Hernandez recently faced drug charges on Vancouver Island.Three years ago, the 22-year-old was arrested in Saanich and charged with possession...
View ArticleMan who killed girlfriend, left body in West Van park gets four years
A man who confessed to killing his homeless girlfriend in West Vancouver in 2009 has been sentenced to more than four years in prison.Alexander La Glace stabbed Tammy-Lynn Cordone at least 15 times in...
View ArticleAbbotsford 22-year-old charged with child porn offences
A child porn arrest in Abbotsford.Police say 22-year-old Sean Joshua LeBlanc now faces charges of possession and importing child pornography, as well as luring a person under the age of 16.It's the...
View ArticlePolice look for suspect after rodeo protester attacked
Police in Surrey are looking for a woman who assaulted a protester at the Cloverdale Rodeo on Saturday.The incident was captured on video and posted to YouTube.RCMP Corporal Bert Paquet says it started...
View ArticleLabour unions say they lost the battle but won the war
The unions say they may have lost the battle but have won the war, after a federal court dismisses their challenge of HD Mining's application to bring in temporary foreign workers.Brian Cochrane, with...
View ArticleUBC Law Professor says media story "false"
A UBC law professor is firing back at CTV after being linked to the ongoing senate expense scandal involving Senator Mike Duffy and others.In a statement Benjamin Perrin calls the CTV story...
View ArticleGas fire ousts Mission residents from homes
Fortis BC is unsure of when people evacuated from about 20 homes in Mission will get to return after a natural gas fire.Spokesperson Michael Allison says a hydro wire fell on top of a stop sign."It...
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