An independent police force and the scrapping of LRT to Guildford and Newton were the night's biggest topics
Doug McCallum's big promises for what he would do if elected mayor of Surrey were the centre of a sometimes acrimonious debate on Wednesday evening.
Geologist says landslide is still moving several metres each day
Residents of an evacuated Northern B.C. community could be away from their homes until the summer, an expert said at a sometimes heated public meeting Monday morning.
Highway 15 (176th Street) in Surrey remains partially closed after a fatal collision.
The southbound lane has re-opened, but the highway is closed northbound between 40th Avenue and 24th Avenue.
The Peace River Regional District has ordered the entire area of Old Fort evacuated, a week after a slow-moving landslide cut off the only road to the small community in northeastern B.C. — but at least one resident says some refuse to leave.
In a statement, the district said the order was issued because of an "immediate danger to life" due to a slow-moving landslide that struck last Sunday about one kilometre away from the main part of the community, which has about 30 homes and about 200 residents.
British Columbians impacted by fires and floods this year will get a break on their energy bills.
FortisBC announced Thursday that anyone who was under an evacuation order due to the disasters that gripped the province for months will not be charged for energy used while they were not at their homes.
Police say up to 21 protesters from a nearby tent city in Nanaimo, B.C., were removed and charged with mischief after they occupied a closed elementary school in the area.
Some of them gathered on the building's roof, shouting "Fight for justice! Fight for homes!"
Bullet holes can be seen in the driver's side window of a black pickup at the scene
Police are investigating a shooting at a shopping mall in Mission, B.C.
