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RCMP say multiple people have reported receiving a text purported to be from ICBC informing them that they have unpaid tickets.

A 21-year-old man said he was standing near his vehicle in an apartment parking lot when a man and three youths approached, stabbed him and stole his vehicle

Murray Acton was jailed in Ohio after being arrested along with guitarist Matt Fiorito during the band’s U.S. tour.

As thousands of British Columbia government workers hit the picket lines Tuesday, the province's finance minister said there had been communication with the union to convince its team to come back to the bargaining table.

COLWOOD — RCMP on Vancouver Island say a 43-year-old Victoria man has been hit with more than $1,000 in fines after allegedly fleeing police who were trying to stop him for suspected impaired driving.

VANCOUVER — The BC Wildfire Service says there were just 74 lightning strikes on Labour Day compared with thousands that peppered the province and sent fire numbers soaring in the last days of August.

It began when West Shore RCMP responded about 10:30 p.m. Saturday to a report about a driver believed to be impaired on Ocean Boulevard in Colwood.

An Oak Bay police officer who approached the sleeping driver spotted a rifle buttstock that turned out to have nine rounds of ammunition stored in the sleeve.

VANCOUVER — A ridge of high pressure has prompted more heat warnings in British Columbia and broken temperature records, including one that was nearly a century old.

A close family friend has started a ­fundraiser for the Xavier Rasul-Jankovics Memorial Fund, which will be directed by family toward initiatives to help ­prevent similar deaths.