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More than 100 wildfires are still listed as burning in B.C., with extreme drought and dry winter conditions throughout December. 80 percent of those fires are in Northeast BC, and are difficult to reach. 

Directors cited an increase tax burden to rural residents and a dissatisfaction with the province's pushing of the new legislation

COQUITLAM, B.C. — Police in Coquitlam, B.C., are asking for the public's help in identifying two separate drivers suspected of hitting the same pedestrian in alleged hit-and-run crashes.

VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver say they're investigating the city's first homicide of this year. A statement from police says officers were called to a home near East 33rd Avenue and Knight Street just after 1 a.m.

Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP Bob Zimmer met with Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre this past week in Prince Rupert as part of rallies held there and in Terrace.

In 2023, 10 approved donors from northern BC donated a total of 173,947 mL of milk via the milk collection depot at the Prince George neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). 

Thirteen shipping containers or trailers of packaged food were sent to 10 humanitarian aid partners, to be distributed in seven or more countries on three continents.

SURREY, B.C. — RCMP in Metro Vancouver say one man is dead and three people have been arrested after an alleged hit-and-run early Saturday morning. A statement from Surrey RCMP says officers responded at 1:43 a.m.

Laurie Cook's makes tables, benches, beds and cutting boards out of slabs of wood and exchanges them for donations that help fund the Ukrainian military's war effort against the Russians

Prosecutors had been seeking a two-year prison sentence, followed by a lengthy term of probation.