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KEREMEOS — A wildfire burning in the southwestern part of British Columbia grew to an estimated 50 hectares in size overnight, prompting an evacuation alert. The B.C.

VANCOUVER — Organizers of the Vancouver Chinatown Festival said security is their top priority in the wake of the Lapu Lapu festival tragedy that killed 11 and injured dozens more in April.

BURNABY — Officials from a B.C.

PRINCE GEORGE — One of two cyclists who was struck in a hit and run earlier this week in Prince George, B.C., has died of his injuries.

A 25-year-old man has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for manslaughter in the stabbing death of another man in Whistler, B.C., in 2021. Homicide investigators say Dedaar Jhooty of Delta, B.C., was sentenced by a B.C.

VANCOUVER — Vancouver's city council has voted unanimously to reduce the speed limit on local streets to 30 kilometres per hour, down from the provincially mandated 50 kilometres per hour.

An evacuation order and alert have been rescinded near Lytton, B.C., after firefighters declared that a nearby wildfire is "being held" and is no longer considered likely to spread.

MISSION, B.C. — Police in Mission, B.C., say they were recently called to a "juicy incident" which then set off a series of puns from the local RCMP detachment.

SURREY — RCMP say British Columbia's Independent Investigations Office has been called in after officers shot and killed a man at a home in Surrey after responding to a reported assault on Monday evening.

VICTORIA — The B.C. Green Party has announced Adam Bremner-Akins as its third contestant for the party's 2025 leadership race. It says Bremner-Akins is a political science student, environmentalist and lifelong B.C.