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A fire truck is driven through a vineyard while battling a wildfire in Peachland, B.C., on Monday September 10, 2012. Consumers can expect a smaller selection of local vintages hit retail shelves as British Columbia’s wine industry grapples with the fallout of two years’ worth of significant crop losses from cold snaps that followed severe wildfires. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Bitter Harvest: climate change provides ‘clean slate’ for B.C. wine industry
Medical tools are pictured in an exam room at a health clinic in Calgary on Friday, July 14, 2023. B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix announced on March 10, 2024 that the province is expanding access to a blood cancer treatment. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Access to new blood cancer treatment expanded in B.C.
Brian William Harold Chciuk and Keisha Mari McCrea pleaded not guilty to charges of failing to provide necessities of life in provincial court Thursday, March 7, 2024. (Black Press file photo)
B.C. couple plead not guilty to neglect charges 4 years after child’s death
Baldy Mountain Resort near Oliver has seen close to 50 cm of snow over the last week. (Photo- Baldy Mountain Resort/Facebook)
B.C. snowpack at lowest March 1 levels in 2 decades, 2nd lowest ever
(Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito)
Eby promises to work with Jewish leaders after Robinson’s departure
In the first two months of 2024, police in Surrey received 50 reports of cryptocurrency fraud resulting in a loss of $3.2 million. A visual representation of the digital cryptocurrency, Bitcoin on Dec. 07, 2017 in London. (Photo: Dan Kitwood/ Getty Images/TNS/File Photo)
Surrey residents scammed out of $12M in cryptocurrency in 2023: RCMP
Johnny Tai prunes one of his succulents in Richmond, B.C., on March 3, 2024. The 80-year-old Richmond, B.C., gardener still has hasn’t recovered from the “crime scene” he found in two greenhouses one morning in mid-January — thousands of dead and dying succulents and other plants, thanks to a sudden cold snap and snowfall. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
Hearts wither for B.C. gardeners digging out from devastating cold snap
Zachary Monroe, student at Centre Mountain Lellum Middle School, said that the extra funding will help pay for school field trips. (News Staff/ Thomas Eley)
Provincial funding for school expenses to help B.C. families
Former cabinet minister Selina Robinson, speaks during an announcement in Delta, B.C., on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Robinson announced March 6, 2024 that she was resigning from the BC NDP caucus. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Selina Robinson quits BC NDP caucus, citing anti-Semitism
Mental Health and Addictions Minister Jennifer Whiteside, leftt and Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth in Port Moody March 6, 2024 as the province announced the HealthIM app would be expanding throughout the province with $2 mllion in funding for the BC Association of Chiefs of Police. (Lauren Collins)
New app to connect police, health-care providers during mental health calls
A New Westminster registered nurse has been suspended for one month after he assaulted a patient. (Pixabay)
B.C. nurse suspended for punching ER patient, throwing charcoal at them
John Erickson is concerned about an Interior Health decision to close the west entrance into the cancer clinic due to flu season. (Jennifer Smith - Morning Star)
B.C. hospital sends terminal cancer patient on cold walk to avoid the flu
A screenshot from a live-streamed video on Kick shows a B.C. teen driving a car into the Burrard Inlet on Monday night (March 4). (@AdinRossEmpire/X)
B.C. teen live-streamed driving car into ocean on apparent paid dare: police
FILE - The Meta logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris, France, on June 14, 2023. Facebook and Instagram users will start seeing labels on AI-generated images that appear on their social media feeds, part of a broader tech industry initiative to sort between what’s real and not. Meta said Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024 it’s working with industry partners on technical standards that will make it easier to identify images and eventually video and audio generated by artificial intelligence tools. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
UPDATE: Facebook, Instagram back after problems reported around the world
Six skiers have been rescued in two separate operations in the mountains in southwestern British Columbia. Rescue crew members board a helicopter in Pemberton, B.C. in a Monday, Jan.12, 2015 file photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave Steers
B.C. Search and Rescue teams safely get 6 skiers out of trouble
A measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is shown on a countertop at a pediatric clinic in Greenbrae, Calif. on Feb. 6, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Eric Risberg
1st case of measles reported in B.C. over weekend: BCCDC
Jazz singer Eleanor Collins on television in 1955, left, and on a Vancouver concert stage in 2013. The Surrey resident died Sunday, March 5, 2024, in hospital at age 104. (Contributed photos)
‘Canada’s first lady of jazz’ and TV pioneer, B.C.’s Eleanor Collins dead at 104
With the continuing dry conditions come what BC Wildfire Service calls “holdover” wildfires. They’re fires that burn over winter, often underground, but can resurface during warm and dry temperatures. (Phil McLachlan – Western News)
Precipitation still at a deficit as B.C. nears 2024 wildfire season
A customer leaves a SportChek and Nevada Bob’s Golf store in Ottawa on Monday, May 9, 2011. Despite an unseasonably warm winter, there’s a chill across the Canadian retail landscape. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Canada shies away from clothes shopping, apparel stores brace for tough year
RCMP is investigating a suspicious fire that burned Port Coquitlam’s Hazel Trembath Elementary School to the ground in the early hours of Oct. 14, 2023. (Sent in by friends to Julianne Marie Siegle)
Fire that burned B.C. school to the ground was human caused: Police