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  • Apr 24, 2024
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An RCMP cruiser. (Vladvictoria/Pixabay.com)

Ex-RCMP officer found guilty in assault of B.C. international student

Stanley Lee, 46, was sentenced to 12-month conditional discharge with probation

  • Apr 24, 2024
An RCMP cruiser. (Vladvictoria/Pixabay.com)
A memorial was set up for Jared Lowndes at the Campbell River Tim Hortons where the incident took place. Photo by Marc Kitteringham / Campbell River Mirror

Crown rejects charges in B.C. police shooting because of lack of evidence

B.C. Prosecution Service says it can’t prove officers committed offence in 2021 Jared Lowndes death

  • Apr 24, 2024
A memorial was set up for Jared Lowndes at the Campbell River Tim Hortons where the incident took place. Photo by Marc Kitteringham / Campbell River Mirror
Jared Lowndes’ brother Sean Holland holds an urn carrying Lowndes’ remains in front of the RCMP station in Campbell River. Photo by Marc Kitteringham / Campbell River Mirror

No charges for police who shot Indigenous man in B.C. parking lot: family

Watchdog referred file to crown to consider charges, Lowndes family told charges will not proceed

  • Apr 23, 2024
Jared Lowndes’ brother Sean Holland holds an urn carrying Lowndes’ remains in front of the RCMP station in Campbell River. Photo by Marc Kitteringham / Campbell River Mirror
Friends of 15-year-old homicide victim Tristan Seeger stand next to a memorial for the teen on the six month anniversary of his death. (Brittany Webster/Capital News)

6 months later and no charges in Kelowna teen’s homicide

Tristan Seeger was struck by a vehicle and killed in October 2023

  • Apr 23, 2024
Friends of 15-year-old homicide victim Tristan Seeger stand next to a memorial for the teen on the six month anniversary of his death. (Brittany Webster/Capital News)
Aldergrove’s Kassidy Keith and Havana were winners of the week’s feature event at tbird, the $10,000 Maui Jim 1.40m Grand Prix, on Sunday, April 21. (tbird/Kady Dane Photography/Special to Langley Advance Times)

VIDEO: Grand Prix win for B.C.’s Kassidy Keith and Havana

Took $10,000 competition in hometown event

  • Apr 22, 2024
Aldergrove’s Kassidy Keith and Havana were winners of the week’s feature event at tbird, the $10,000 Maui Jim 1.40m Grand Prix, on Sunday, April 21. (tbird/Kady Dane Photography/Special to Langley Advance Times)
For the second year running, Vancouver Football Club have signed a young Lower Mainland player out of their open trials.This time it’s Squamish’s own Joey Buchanan. (Beau Chevalier, VFC/Special to Langley Advance Times)

Young unknown signs to Lower Mainland’s newest pro soccer team

Squamish native Joey Buchanan joins Vancouver Football Club on a development contract

  • Apr 21, 2024
For the second year running, Vancouver Football Club have signed a young Lower Mainland player out of their open trials.This time it’s Squamish’s own Joey Buchanan. (Beau Chevalier, VFC/Special to Langley Advance Times)
(BC Wildfire Service)

UPDATE: B.C. interior wildfires being held

Multiple wildfires sparked in the Kamloops, Southeast fire centres over the weekend

  • Apr 21, 2024
(BC Wildfire Service)
In game two of only its second season, Langley’s pro soccer team, the Vancouver Football Club, is enjoying a winning streak. The team won both its at-home matches at Willoughby Stadium, the most recent a 2-0 victory over the Halifax Wanderers on Thursday night. (Beau Chevalier, VFC/Special to Langley Advance Times)

Victory times 2 for Vancouver FC

Langley’s pro soccer team won its first two games of the season on home pitch, now starts road trip

  • Apr 19, 2024
In game two of only its second season, Langley’s pro soccer team, the Vancouver Football Club, is enjoying a winning streak. The team won both its at-home matches at Willoughby Stadium, the most recent a 2-0 victory over the Halifax Wanderers on Thursday night. (Beau Chevalier, VFC/Special to Langley Advance Times)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Victoria on Friday, April 19 for a media availability talking budget 2024. (Mark Page/News Staff)

Trudeau highlights research funding in stop at the University of Victoria

The prime minister being in town sparked a pro-Palestine protest on campus

  • Apr 19, 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Victoria on Friday, April 19 for a media availability talking budget 2024. (Mark Page/News Staff)
Lisa Rauch died after a standoff with police that ended up with anti-riot ammunition being deployed. (Photo Courtesy Rauch Family)

Smoke obscured vision, Victoria firefighter says in hearing into woman’s death

Testimony continues in public hearing examining police conduct in the death of a 43-year-old woman

  • Apr 18, 2024
Lisa Rauch died after a standoff with police that ended up with anti-riot ammunition being deployed. (Photo Courtesy Rauch Family)
The National Day of Mourning is not only a day of remembrance; it’s a call to action. Each of the 175 workers lost in British Columbia last year represents a unique loss felt deeply by their families, friends and colleagues.

Reflection and Action: Honouring workers on the National Day of Mourning

In 2023, 175 BC workers lost their lives to workplace injury or disease

  • Apr 18, 2024
The National Day of Mourning is not only a day of remembrance; it’s a call to action. Each of the 175 workers lost in British Columbia last year represents a unique loss felt deeply by their families, friends and colleagues.
A Victoria police officer testified in a hearing investigating the 2019 death of Lisa Rauch. (Black Press Media file photo)

Victoria police officer questioned on force options in death of woman

Public hearing investigating 2019 death of Lisa Rauch continues with day three testimony from police

  • Apr 17, 2024
A Victoria police officer testified in a hearing investigating the 2019 death of Lisa Rauch. (Black Press Media file photo)
Lana Popham, Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito)

POPHAM: B.C.’s tourism industry a resilient economic driver

Tourism Week is a time to reflect on and celebrate one of…

  • Apr 17, 2024
Lana Popham, Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito)
The couch from the apartment Lisa Rauch had barricaded herself into. A curling iron is shown sitting in the couch, possibly the cause of the fire that gave urgency to the police response, during which Rauch was killed. (Photo Courtesy of the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner)

Lead-up to woman’s death included drug use, tense standoff with Victoria police

Massing of Victoria police followed descent into ‘drug psychosis’

  • Apr 17, 2024
The couch from the apartment Lisa Rauch had barricaded herself into. A curling iron is shown sitting in the couch, possibly the cause of the fire that gave urgency to the police response, during which Rauch was killed. (Photo Courtesy of the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner)
Emerson the elephant seal has made his way back to Greater Victoria after a failed relocation effort to take him to a remote beach up-Island. (Mark Page/News Staff)

Emerson’s celebrity grows as the Victoria seal thwarts relocation efforts

Efforts followed harassment reports, including of a child being encouraged to touch noses with the seal

  • Apr 16, 2024
Emerson the elephant seal has made his way back to Greater Victoria after a failed relocation effort to take him to a remote beach up-Island. (Mark Page/News Staff)
Liver donor Letecia Hayes (left), two-time liver recipient Matt Scaife (centre), and kidney donor Stacy Rodriguez at BC Cancer Kelowna spreading the word for National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Month. (Brittany Webster/Capital News)

After 2 liver transplants Kelowna resident urges living organ donations

B.C. broke records for organ donation in 2023

  • Apr 16, 2024
Liver donor Letecia Hayes (left), two-time liver recipient Matt Scaife (centre), and kidney donor Stacy Rodriguez at BC Cancer Kelowna spreading the word for National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Month. (Brittany Webster/Capital News)
Saanich Coun. Teale Phelps Bondaroff and Devon Black won the Jack Layton Progress Prize for their work spearheading the AccessBC campaign, which successfully lobbied the provincial government to provide free prescription contraception.

Saanich councillor wins award in Ottawa for B.C.’s free contraception campaign

Coun. Teale Phelps Bondaroff and Devon Black won the Jack Layton Progress Prize award for AccessBC

  • Apr 16, 2024
Saanich Coun. Teale Phelps Bondaroff and Devon Black won the Jack Layton Progress Prize for their work spearheading the AccessBC campaign, which successfully lobbied the provincial government to provide free prescription contraception.
A February 2024 survey of Canadian drivers found 60 per cent feel road rage and most hate being cut off in traffic. (Pixabay)

Cutting someone off on the road a hard ‘no’ for Canadians: Survey

60% of respondents admit to feeling road rage for various reasons

  • Apr 16, 2024
A February 2024 survey of Canadian drivers found 60 per cent feel road rage and most hate being cut off in traffic. (Pixabay)
An artist’s rendering of the Woodfibre LNG terminal set to open near Squamish in 2027. Ahead of it’s opening, scientists are studying what impact the gas flaring process at the site could have on people living nearby. (Credit: Woodfibre LNG)

Scientists studying possible health impacts of incoming Squamish LNG plant

Pollution produced during gas flaring process could impact area residents, study authors say

  • Apr 15, 2024
An artist’s rendering of the Woodfibre LNG terminal set to open near Squamish in 2027. Ahead of it’s opening, scientists are studying what impact the gas flaring process at the site could have on people living nearby. (Credit: Woodfibre LNG)