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The Peace River Regional District says residents who are subject to evacuation orders in the Kelly Lake area of northeastern B.C. should leave immediately, as an advancing wildfire "cannot be contained.

VICTORIA — British Columbia ministers are set to travel to Europe in a bid to diversify and strengthen markets for the province's tech industries, even as Premier David Eby continues an Asian trade mission.

DUNCAN — Mounties in British Columbia say a mill worker on Vancouver Island has drowned after being trapped in a piece of heavy equipment that plunged into the ocean.

The British Columbia Wildfire Service warned Wednesday that incoming winds were expected to drive an out-of-control wildfire towards the community of Kelly Lake, about 80 kilometres south of Dawson Creek in the province's northeast.

VANCOUVER — Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim said he was surprised by criticism of plans to honour victims of the Lapu Lapu festival attack with a large memorial event, which a Filipino advocacy group said lacked consultation and felt "too soon" for some in t

A stretch of the Alaska Highway west of Fort Nelson, B.C., reopened to single-lane alternating traffic later Tuesday, but British Columbia's driving information service says the status of the route could change quickly based on a nearby wildfire.

The British Columbia government has created 18 new beds dedicated to long-term involuntary care at a Metro Vancouver mental health facility. The new beds at Alouette Homes in Maple Ridge, B.C.

Peel Region police say two men were arrested in British Columbia and charged with murder in the shooting death of a man in Mississauga, Ont., last month. Police say 51-year-old Harjeet Dhadda of Brampton, Ont.

Fire season is ramping up in British Columbia as the province's wildfire service warns of hot, dry and windy conditions in the forecast.

VANCOUVER — Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says a planned trip to Ottawa this week to meet with senior federal officials aims to strengthen ties with a newly elected government.