The 45-year-old man that died after being buried by an avalanche near Revelstoke this week has been identified as Jannik Inselkammer of Munich, Germany. Inselkammer was a Munich-area businessman who worked in the beer brewing industry. He was born into a brewing family and had several ownership stakes and managing director ...

RCMP want to remind the public members do not represent Revenue Canada as tax collectors and in no way will the police contact consumers to request money. RCMP in North Vancouver recently received complaints from residents of suspicious phone calls from an unknown caller who alleges to be an RCMP police officer. The person ...

Fifty years ago municipal councils were elected to one year terms. Forty years ago the law was changed to allow for two-year terms. Twenty-four years ago terms were extended to three years, and now councils are to be elected to serve four year terms. The reasons for every term extension were to reduce election costs, to give...

From Huffington Post Searchers found another body Sunday in the debris from a massive landslide, bringing the death toll to at least four from the wall of mud and debris that also completely destroyed a small riverside neighborhood in Washington State. At least 18 people remained missing, though authorities warned that number...

By Huffington Post Jim Flaherty, one of Canada's longest-serving finance ministers, has announced his resignation from cabinet. Flaherty, first elected in 2006 after a long career in Ontario politics, says he plans to return to the private sector. Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a statement saying he had accepted Flaherty's...

Two people were killed and one was seriously injured when the KOMO News helicopter crashed and burst into flames Tuesday morning near the Space Needle in Seattle. Emergency personnel immediately rushed to the scene as thick smoke poured over the city at the height of the morning commute. Two cars and a pickup truck on Broad...

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died in an avalanche near Blue River Sunday as Jay Quayle, aged 35, of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. Quayle was one of a party of seven who had travelled to the Monashee Mountains near Blue River to go snowmobiling. They were snowmobiling in an area known as Red ...

Someone in BC is going to be pretty happy when they check their Lotto Max ticket. The Lottery Corporation said there is one winning ticket for the $50-million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw — and it was purchased by someone in Langley — after four consecutive weeks of no one winning the massive jackpot. Lotto Max ...

 After four avalanche fatalities in the past six days, the Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) is urging backcountry users to make cautious and conservative decisions while in avalanche terrain. “We’ve been dealt a pretty troublesome snowpack this season and our terrain choices need to reflect that fact,” explains Karl Klassen,...

The BC Government did some back tracking Wednesday after the announcement of former B.C. Solicitor General, John Les would be co-chairing a new earthquake preparedness consultation. Wednesday, in the Legislature, Premier Christy Clark announced the withdrawal of Les's appointment saying it does not fit with the government's...