Civil forfeiture lawsuit seeks seizure of three alleged B.C. Hells Angels clubhouses
British Columbia’s Director of Civil Forfeiture wants to seize three clubhouses from the Hells Angels, claiming properties in Surrey, Mission and Pitt Meadows were used by the motorcycle club to carry out unlawful activities, including drug trafficking and murder. The...
Eby says no to harvesting old-growth to extend life of B.C. pulp mill
British Columbia Premier David Eby says his government is looking for ways to help a closing Vancouver Island pulp mill, but that harvesting the province’s old-growth trees is not an option. Eby made the comments as he prepares to meet...
Construction makes frustrating commute for some Mary Hill Bypass drivers
1130 NewsRadio has been hearing from drivers upset with ongoing delays and road changes on the Mary Hill Bypass in Port Coquitlam. The provincial government says work began in late November to seismically upgrade the existing four-lane crossing of the...
Mounties investigating after driver fatally strikes pedestrian in Burnaby
The Burnaby RCMP is asking for witnesses to come forward after a driver struck and killed a pedestrian on Monday evening. Mounties say officers responded to the crash on Kingsway near Edmonds Street shortly after 7 p.m. CLICK HERE TO...
HandyDART operation remains in hands of a third party contractor
The TransLink Board of Directors decided that a third-party contractor will continue operating Metro Vancouver’s HandyDART accessible transit service. In its decision on Wednesday, the board says the contract model provides the most cost-effective operation of the service. CLICK HERE...
20 B.C. Conservative MLAs call for Leader John Rustad’s removal, lawyer’s letter says
Twenty members of B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad’s caucus say they’ve lost confidence in him and want him out, but he says he isn’t going anywhere. A letter from lawyer Bruce Hallsor to Aisha Estey, the president of the Conservative...
BC Hydro taking family to court over blocked work on major transmission line
BC Hydro says a family of ranchers in Vanderhoof, B.C., is wrongfully blocking access to properties that would allow its crews to clear the way for the North Coast Transmission Line, a $6-billion project the federal government has labelled a...
Hundreds of Vancouver Island mill workers lose jobs ahead of Christmas
Pulp and paper giant Domtar is closing its Crofton paper mill, forcing 350 people out of work with Christmas just around the corner. On Tuesday, the company announced the mill would close permanently due to lack of access to affordable...
B.C. Supreme Court says CP and CN railways may be linked to devastating Lytton fire
The operations of Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways might have sparked the devastating June 2021 Lytton fire, according to a B.C. Supreme Court judge . On Tuesday, Justice Ward Branch approved a class-action lawsuit — meaning the lawsuit can...
Retrial finds man guilty in murder of Vancouver teen passerby Alfred Wong
A man has been found guilty of two counts of second-degree murder in connection with the shooting deaths of a gangster and a teenager who was passing by with his family. On Monday evening, a B.C. Supreme Court jury found...
