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SURREY, B.C. — British Columbia's police watchdog is investigating after a man died in Surrey Friday night while in custody.

The homeowner had planned to take the bins back indoors on Friday night. But the bear beat him to it.

SMITHERS, B.C. — The Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako in central B.C. has issued an evacuation order for all properties west of the Telkwa River, accessed off of Tatlow Road, including all local roads, as the Powers Creek wildfire rages nearby.

COQUITLAM, B.C. — A warrant of committal has been issued for a patient of Coquitlam's Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, whom RCMP say is unlawfully at large. Gabriel Gibson was reported overdue on a day pass at 5:00 p.m. on July 7.

Recruitment has started in Vancouver.

“She’s in the hospital doing fine. I’m sure there’s a lot psychological trauma that will accompany that, but she’s in really good spirits at the moment."

A phone registered to the mother of a 13-year-old girl found dead in a Burnaby park in July 2017 made 25 unanswered calls in less than three hours on the night she went missing.

Sandy Jack Parisian is one of two men facing charges in connected with the death of a 78-year-old woman in Vancouver

"This was no play fight."

The B.C. Prosecution Service found that Dhaliwal, a New Westminster School Board trustee, likely contravened the Local Government Act, but recommended that it was not in the public interest to charge her