B.C. News

SURREY, B.C. — Police are investigating a Saturday-evening shooting in Surrey, B.C. that they say preceded a car crash. Local Mounties say in a news release that it happened in the Newton area at around 8:40 p.m.

The fire's size is 100 hectares larger than yesterday's estimate.

LYTTON, B.C. — British Columbia's Wildfire Service says a blaze in the Fraser Canyon has been renamed and is now classified as out-of-control after charring 2.5 square kilometres south of Lytton, B.C.

Burnaby RCMP officers are investigating after a report of gunshots near a local elementary school on Friday night. Police tweeted out about having a police presence along Armstrong Avenue near Cariboo, close to Armstrong Elementary, at around 9 p.m.

The City of Burnaby will have bragging rights when a new residential tower is completed.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's premier says he's received a second dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. John Horgan shared a photo of himself to social media on Friday afternoon holding a completed vaccination card.

NARAMATA, B.C. — RCMP say two men have been charged in the double murder of two brothers in British Columbia's Okanagan region. The bodies of Erick and Carlos Fryer were found in a remote location near the town of Naramata.

LOWER POST, B.C. — A ceremony to mark the demolition of a former residential school building in a British Columbia First Nation community has been postponed after animal remains were found by construction workers.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's chief auditor of mines has found changes to the province's requirements for tailings storage facilities made after the Mount Polley disaster have generally improved the management of mining waste.

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