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Marlaine Williams of Crofton was scammed out of $8,550 by a fraudster who told her there had been a dozen attempts to get money from her bank account

COQUITLAM, B.C. — Police say they believe a fire last October that destroyed an elementary school in Port Coquitlam, B.C., was "criminal in nature." Coquitlam RCMP Insp.

A critical-incident team from the school district has been at the Shawnigan-Mill Bay Road school since shortly after the incident to support students and staff

In addition to the one-year jail sentence, Craig Bogh will serve three years of probation and has been registered as a sex offender.

While the pilot project is being hailed as a significant step, it won’t yet see the hospital’s ER reopen overnight

The coroners service and the Children and Families Ministry are investigating the death of Oliver Ratchford, who was found face-down in a backyard garden pond.

Garrett Allen Cazes, 41, was sentenced to six years in jail on Jan. 8 in Fort St. John Provincial Court for unlawful confinement, aggravated assault, uttering threats, and breaking and entering of a dwelling house for robbery. 

VICTORIA — Toxic drugs killed 198 people in British Columbia in January, adding to an unrelenting toll that has killed more than 14,000 people since a public health emergency was declared eight years ago.

REVELSTOKE, B.C. — Avalanche Canada has issued a warning for wide swaths of the British Columbia Interior into parts of Alberta, with "very dangerous" conditions forecast to persist until Monday.

A civil liability claim has been filed in Vancouver on Feb. 26 against School District 91's board of education, alleging they failed to dismiss a teacher for sexually assaulting a student between 1979 or 1980 in Vanderhoof.