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File # 2013-37431
2014-01-08 09:38 PST
The Prince George RCMP are requesting the public’s help in locating a missing youth.
On Monday December 30th, 2013, the Prince George RCMP received a report of a missing youth that did not return to her residence on Sunday December 29th.
Resources: Victoria's surrender on procedural point a black mark for government that fancies itself mining friendly
First Nations in northeastern B.C. repeated a familiar story to the Site C Joint Review Panel on Tuesday, saying they are being backed into a corner, and warning that they are ready to set up blockades if the hydroelectric dam is approved.
Environmental groups are hoping to launch a major fundraising campaign in the near future to raise millions of dollars to put bear-hunting guides out of business in the Great Bear Rainforest.
Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence last January on Victoria Island during her fast.
Premier Christy Clark has made it clear she wants government to proceed quickly with liquefied natural gas development in British Columbia.
But how fast is too fast?
Thousands of Canada's aboriginal children died in residential schools that failed to keep them safe from fires, protected from abusers, and healthy by preventing deadly disease, a commission into the saga has found.
Aboriginals: Advocate says those at risk are still separated from support in their own communities
While oil pipeline debates, anti-fracking protests and increasing fossil fuel demands embroil the country from coast to coast, a small Vancouver Island First Nation is leading the way on a different path.
Whenever a relatively distant part of B.C. gets highlighted in a huge American media outlet, it invariably increases people's curiosity.
Chuck Strahl, Chairman of the federal body which oversees Canada’s spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), has registered to lobby on behalf of Enbridge’s ‘Northern Gateway Pipelines Li
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says his government's drive to diversify Canada's energy markets doesn't make cabinet approval of the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline project a foregone conclusion.
Special points of interest:
A task force report has been handed in to the B.C. and Alberta governments that examines the idea of transporting oilsands crude via rail if proposed pipelines don't get the green light, government documents show.
It's an idea the environmental group ForestEthics calls "underhanded."
A Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and author of the current bestseller The Orenda, Joseph Boyden is one of Canada's most prominent writers.
Seven more First Nations in British Columbia received broadband Internet connections this year.
