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Metro Vancouver Crime Stoppers said it's taking the "unusual step" of accepting tips from extortion victims amid ongoing threats and violence targeting South Asian businesses in Surrey, B.C., and elsewhere.

TEXADA ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service says a grizzly bear has been found dead on Texada Island after Mounties told them someone reported shooting and wounding the animal.

Ivy Michelle Bell, 40, of Surrey, was fatally stabbed at 4:30 a.m. in Gastown on Sunday.

The competition on English Bay is expected to involve the city's biggest public gatherings since the deadly vehicle attack at the Lapu Lapu festival in April.

The Cowichan Watershed Board says river conditions are similar to those in 2023, when tens of thousands of fish died after prolonged drought and heat.

Island Health says it’s “not able to constantly upload data to inform a ‘real time’ prediction,” uploading the data “once per day.”

The B.C. Supreme Court has sentenced a man to life in prison without parole eligibility for 25 years for beating his ex-girlfriend to death with a baseball bat as she slept beside her young daughter in 2021.

VANCOUVER — Residents of nearly 30 properties near Princeton, B.C., who were forced to evacuate Sunday due to a nearby wildfire are allowed to return home.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's minister in charge of water is asking residents to do everything they can to conserve the resource in the coming weeks, as the province faces elevated drought conditions in the southern Interior.

SURREY — Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating a collision that claimed the life of a child Sunday night.