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The BC Wildfire Service says rain, light winds and cooler temperatures are expected to decrease fire behaviour in the province this week, just as a newly discovered blaze in the East Kootenays prompts an evacuation order and alerts for more than 50 p

Paul Richard Nathan Spencer, 43, died in 2019 after a dispute with security at Royal Jubilee Hospital, where he’d been admitted after suffering delusions

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's police watchdog says a woman who died of an overdose in an RCMP jail cell had asked to go to hospital twice.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's Public Safety Ministry says it has filed an unexplained wealth order application in court following a 2023 shooting at a Vancouver home.

BAYNES LAKE, B.C. — A wildfire has triggered a "tactical evacuation" in the community of Baynes Lake in southeast British Columbia.

The community services department says it will try to rehabilitate first.

KELOWNA, B.C. — A 24-year-old woman faces a charge for what RCMP in Kelowna, B.C., say was a home invasion where another woman was repeatedly stabbed.

A man described as acting erratically was arrested at a nearby home.

Most services for Metro Vancouver's specialized HandyDART transit system remain cancelled for a second week, with the operator saying it will respond to a new proposal from the union representing striking workers on Thursday.

VANCOUVER — The union representing HandyDART workers in Metro Vancouver says it won't be getting a counterproposal to end the strike until at least Thursday.