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Another firefighter is killed while combating a wildfire near Fort St. John, British Columbia, marking the third firefighter death in Canada's wildfire season this year.
2023-07-29

British Columbia reports Canada's first case of the Nigerian variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a young person from the Interior Health region who is currently self-isolating.
2021-02-12

British Columbia confirms 18 cases of the new variants of SARS-CoV-2 from the United Kingdom and South Africa.
2021-02-1

A house deck collapses in Langley, British Columbia, Canada, injuring 40 people, 20 of them severely.
2019-04-19

A 7.9 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. A tsunami warning is issued for coastal Alaska and British Columbia, and the entire U.S. West Coast is placed under a tsunami watch. Areas of Alaska remain under a tsunami advisory. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
2018-01-23

American stuntwoman Joi 'SJ' Harris is killed in a motorcycle crash in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, while filming for "Deadpool 2".
2017-08-14

While attempting to create a nanotechnology-based, catalyst-mediated series of chemical reactions to turn carbon dioxide (C (a greenhouse gas) into a usable fuel, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory instead discover a single-step process using the surface area of tiny spikes of copper and carbon as a catalyst to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol (C C O. The reaction may serve as a method to alleviate possible climate change by both decreasing C in the atmosphere and by using the ethanol as an additive to fuels to increase efficiency and thereby decrease consumption.
2016-10-18

An avalanche near McBride in the Canadian province of British Columbia kills five people.
2016-01-29

A coronial inquest into the siege at the Lindt Cafe in the center of Sydney begins. The inquest hears that one hostage was killed by gunman Man Haron Monis while another was killed by fragments of a bullet or bullets fired by New South Wales Police Force officers.
2015-01-29

Voters in Canada's British Columbia Province go to the polls to select members to the province's Legislative Assembly.
2013-05-14