Descrease article font size Increase article font size Hikers on Vancouver Island’s West Coast Trail needed to be pulled off the trail due to recent heavy rainfall. Parks Canada has issued a warning saying sections of the trail are currently “impassable” and recommends not crossing creeks or rivers on foot at this time. They also…
Crime increased across the city last year — in particular, shoplifting, mischief and theft from automobiles — according to Edmonton Police Service (EPS) crime data from 2025. EPS data released Wednesday shows a 3.2-per cent increase in overall crime in 2025, which is the number of police-reported crimes per 100,000 people. At the same time,…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A woman who slipped while hiking in the Rockies west of Calgary did not survive the fall. Canmore RCMP said they responded around 4 p.m. Tuesday to help Parks Canada rescue a fallen hiker near Mount Shark. Police were advised that four people were completing a loop…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Tom Cretain says that since Global News started airing his story after he lost his HandyDART service of 28 years, he has been getting lots of calls, but hasn’t made much progress. Cretain has spinal muscular atrophy and uses a special wheelchair. He said he has now…
The City of Vancouver has selected a group led by Vancouver real estate developer Zack Ross as its preferred partner to pursue a Major League Baseball expansion franchise. Ross, president of Vancouver real estate developer Cape Group, leads The Show Vancouver, a group formed to bring an MLB team to the city. The group’s proposal…
One of B.C.’s largest forestry companies is moving its head offices to the United States. Interfor will be moving its headquarters from Burnaby to the outskirts of Atlanta, Ga., according to a memo sent by chief executive Ian Fillinger, which has been viewed by the Financial Post. Jock Finlayson, the chief economist for the Independent…
The U.S. Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday, although three officials dissented in favor of higher rates as the central bank wrestles with how to deal with persistently high inflation. The Fed’s rate-setting committee reached its decision after two days of deliberations, marking the fifth straight meeting at which the benchmark rate…
Health Canada has been granted a permanent injunction against Quebec-based online retailer Canlab Research, preventing the company from selling unauthorized injectable peptides in Canada. The agency states that Canlab Research had been “selling unauthorized peptide drugs on various websites and promoting them with many unproven health claims, despite repeated enforcement actions by Health Canada.” That…
A Texas man who believed he owned a replica of a piece of Civil War artillery discovered it was actually live ammunition, local police said Tuesday. Officers at the Atascosa County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a home in south Texas just before 8 a.m. Monday after a caller advised that he had a piece…
German company Uniper and B.C.’s Ksi Lisims signed what they called a landmark long-term LNG agreement on Wednesday morning. The agreement took place in Düsseldorf, Germany, and represents the first major long-term LNG supply agreement between Canada and Germany. Uniper will purchase two mtpa (million tonnes per annum) of LNG (approximately 30 TWh per year)…
