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PORT ALBERNI, B.C. — Mounties in British Columbia are asking the public to be honest after a missing hiker's friends delayed reporting her disappearance to police.

Can you help? Abetavu, a village outside of Kampala, Uganda, is in need of family care packages and foam mattresses.

VANCOUVER — Vancouver Police are seeking witnesses to a collision involving an 85-year-old pedestrian who later died in hospital. Police say in a news release the collision happened on Dec.

The most popular name in B.C. over the past 100 years was Robert, which was bestowed on only 14 B.C. babies in 2024, but has been used 36,065 times since 1925.

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — Police say a woman in northeastern British Columbia who told an officer she couldn't remember her name during a traffic stop has been arrested after an untraceable "ghost gun" was found in her vehicle.

The man, who police believe was driving, was taken to hospital with serious life-threatening injuries.

The intersection at Bastion and Commercial streets will be closed for nearly two months starting Jan. 2 as crews work to fill sub-surface voids.

Bench Accounting announced its sudden closure on Friday, putting hundreds of staff out of work and forcing clients to seek alternatives just days from the end of the year.

SURREY, B.C. — British Columbia's police watchdog is seeking witnesses after a man was arrested for urinating on an RCMP station then found to have sustained an injury.

VANCOUVER — Police on Vancouver Island say an early morning report of a car in a ditch took a turn when they discovered the driver had been shot multiple times.