British Columbia News

Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a 'wanted terrorist' in India due to his involvement in various acts of violence and subversive activities.

B.C Premier John Horgan said 62 new fires were reported in B.C. in the past 24 hours, forcing authorities to issue new evacuation orders affecting some 700 people in B.C.`s Cariboo region. The sizzling heat wave also ravaged the U.S. Northwest with record-high temperatures. Lytton set a record of 49.6 degrees Celsius (121.28 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday.

British Columbia has closed schools and universities due to extreme heat. It has pushed temperature in the western Canadian province to a national record over the weekend.

As of Sunday, a total of 178 wildfires were reported to be actively blazing in British Columbia, according to the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System.

Further to the north, the Canadian province of British Columbia was under a state of emergency as fire crews there also battled blazes fueled by searing temperatures and high winds.

British Columbia`s Liberal government was defeated on Thursday in a non-confidence vote, as expected, paving the way for the left-leaning New Democrats to rule the Western Canadian province for the first time in 16 years. 

 The ruling Liberal Party squeaked to victory in British Columbia elections, but it lost its majority after 16 years in power as the left-leaning New Democrats picked up seats, preliminary results showed.

Earthquakes Canada says the tremor hit South Okanagan, about 24 miles (40 km) south of Penticton, British Columbia, near the town of Oliver yesterday.

Avtar Hothi, a 65-year-old farmer from Kamloops, British Columbia, used his turban to save a teen who had fallen into the cold waters of North Thompson River.

Hardeep Nijjar, the operational head of Khalistan Terror Force (KTF), is a baptized Sikh staying in Surrey since 1995 on Canadian passport. 

The book, published on Jan 29 and available through the online retailer Amazon.com Inc, is listed as a personal memoir by Robert Pickton, 66, who is serving a life sentence. 

Five snowmobilers were killed Friday after being buried in an avalanche in Canada`s British Columbia (BC) province, officials said.

 A tiny 3D-printed wheelchair developed by two students in Canada has helped a disabled kitten, who lost his back legs shortly after birth, walk again.