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LANGLEY — A construction project in the City of Langley, B.C., has been destroyed by a fire that began early Sunday morning and continued into the afternoon. Police say they were called to the multi-storey construction site at 4:13 a.m.

The Capital Region Emergency Service Telecommunications system is about to move into its new home, a $16-million disaster-resistant building in Langford.

NANAIMO — The last group of wildfire evacuees forced from their Vancouver Island homes by a blaze north of Nanaimo were allowed to return over the weekend after crews got the fire under control.

NANAIMO — A woman who was reported missing last week has been found along with the vessel she was on but Mounties in British Columbia say they are still looking for her partner.

HARRISON HOT SPRINGS — RCMP say they've recovered the remains of a man who was presumed to have drowned in a lagoon at the village of Harrison Hot Springs, about 130 kilometres east of Vancouver. Mounties in Agassiz, B.C.

VICTORIA — Stuart Parker was 21 when he became the leader of the B.C. Greens in 1993 after campaigning against McDonald's use of ozone-damaging foam packaging.

DUNCAN — The head of British Columbia's police watchdog has cleared an officer of any wrongdoing after their vehicle struck two people who were jaywalking across a B.C. highway earlier this year.

VICTORIA — A protest banner hung on the outside facade of the British Columbia legislature has set off a police probe and an investigation by the clerk's office into the "external security breach.

Preliminary details indicate a southbound Toyota Corolla collided with a Dodge Ram pickup truck near the highway’s Whittaker Road intersection.

Canadian-led Operation Pacific Guard cracks down on illegal fishing in North Pacific.