Three people seriously hurt in Greyhound bus crash in BC Interior
HIXON (NEWS 1130) – Three people have been taken to hospital after a crash this morning involving a Greyhound bus travelling to Prince George from Kamloops. It happened at around 8 a.m. near Hixon,...
View ArticleInvestigation launched after teen girls kicked off bus at Valemount
VICTORIA (NEWS 1130) – BC’s transportation minister says it’s unacceptable that two young girls were left at a remote gas station by a Greyhound bus driver over the weekend. The Passenger...
View ArticleFreedom granted to man who beheaded passenger on Greyhound bus
WINNIPEG (NEWS1130) – A man who was found not criminally responsible for beheading and cannibalizing a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus has been granted his freedom. Manitoba’s Criminal Code Review...
View ArticleSchizophrenia: What the experts say as Greyhound bus beheader wins release
WINNIPEG (NEWS1130) – A man who was in the throws of a psychotic episode when he beheaded a fellow Greyhound bus passenger has received an absolute discharge from the Criminal Code Review Board. The...
View ArticleStudents in northern BC worried about proposed Greyhound cuts
PRINCE GEORGE (NEWS 1130) – University students in northern BC are just learning about the elimination of service Greyhound is proposing for various routes in that region. And without bus service to...
View ArticleGreyhound calls for BC solution to remote transportation challenges
PRINCE GEORGE (NEWS 1130) — Four months after making a request to the B.C. Transportation Board to drop several routes, Greyhound Canada believes it has the solution to save inter-city bus service in...
View ArticleGreyhound cutting several routes across BC
KELOWNA (NEWS 1130) – BC’s Passenger Transportation Board is allowing Greyhound to cut several bus routes around the province, including point-of-service stops between Kamloops and Kelowna. Points of...
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Greyhound Canada cancelling all BC routes but one, no more prairie services
OTTAWA – Greyhound Canada says it is ending its passenger bus and freight services in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and cancelling all but one route in B.C. a U.S.-run service between Vancouver...
View Article‘I’m horrified’: reaction pours in to Greyhound service cancellations
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Greyhound announced Monday morning that it would be pulling out of Western Canada. All routes through the prairie provinces are cancelled, effective October 31st. All routes in...
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Could Greyhound have done more to keep buses running?
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – As Greyhound prepares to cut nearly all its B.C. routes, a business analyst says it’s unclear it the company could have done to keep its service going. Greyhound announced...
View ArticleProvince looking at how to fill the gap as Greyhound leaves western Canada
VICTORIA (NEWS 1130) – B.C.’s transportation minister says her government is speaking out after the Greyhound decision to cut nearly all routes across western Canada was announced yesterday. Claire...
View ArticleThe Big Story: The wheels come off in the West
Greyhound buses have been an essential part of transportation in the prairies for nearly a century, but that ends November 1st. The company says declining ridership has forced them to take their buses...
View Article‘Devastating’ Greyhound cuts could put vulnerable people at risk: UGM
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – As Greyhound Canada prepares to cancel nearly all of its routes across western Canada, Vancouver’s Union Gospel Mission (UGM) is concerned that an important lifeline for many of...
View ArticlePackage delivery firms get ready to fill gap as Greyhound leaves Western Canada
CALGARY – Package delivery firms say they are prepared to fill the gap when Greyhound Canada closes most of its Western Canada operations this fall. The company says its Greyhound Package Express...
View ArticleTrevena says options ‘limited’; looks to feds for support on Greyhound cuts
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Western’s Canada’s transportation ministers say they will be looking to the federal government for assistance, following a meeting to talk about Greyhound’s decision to withdraw...
View Article2008 beheading on Greyhound bus cited for drop in Saskatchewan bus ridership
REGINA – The minister for Saskatchewan’s Crown Investments Corp. says a beheading on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba 10 years ago was the beginning of a steep decline in bus ridership in his province....
View ArticleNDP wants transport minister to spell out plan to replace Greyhound service
OTTAWA – The opposition New Democrats are calling on the Trudeau government to lay out its plan to help communities that will be affected by the shutdown of Greyhound bus services in western Canada....
View ArticleHow subsidies helped save bus service in Washington state
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – As B.C. mulls over how to address the incoming cuts to Greyhound bus routes, a transportation expert in Washington state is offering up a solution. Don Chartock with the State...
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At least four killed in New Mexico bus crash
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At least four people were killed and others were seriously injured Thursday in a head-on crash involving a commercial passenger bus and a semi-truck along Interstate 40 in New...
View ArticleLillooet mayor hopeful following UBCM vote in favour of rail feasibility study
LILLOOET (NEWS 1130) – Delegates at this week’s Union of BC Municipalities convention in Whistler have unanimously approved plans for a feasibility study in conjunction with Via Rail and the provincial...
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