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The trial of Wolfpack Alliance gangster Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil will go on without him. The 35-year-old escaped July 21 from North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Coquitlam, putting a temporary halt on his first degree murder trial in B.C. Supreme Court.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia Ferry Services Board says it has ousted its president and CEO, effective immediately amid staffing shortages and ferry cancellations.

VANCOUVER — An inmate has escaped from a pretrial holding facility in Metro Vancouver and RCMP say he is considered dangerous and should not be approached.

The program, which applies to both resale and new homes, will be the first in Canada.

A wildfire burning out-of-control just under two kilometres northwest of the village of Lytton, B.C. now covers more than 22 square kilometres.

CHILLIWACK, B.C. — A shooting at a home in Chilliwack, B.C. has left two women dead and one man injured. The RCMP's Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment says officers were called to the residence on McNaught Ave. near Yard Rd. at about 11 a.m.

Former Vancouver Canuck Jake Virtanen, 25, was charged with sexual assault in January 2022 following a police investigation while he was still playing in the NHL. He pleaded not guilty.

VANCOUVER — B.C.'s public safety minister has announced a coroner's inquest into the deaths of two people in a fire at the Winters Hotel in downtown Vancouver in April.

"That question was insensitive and I apologize for my suggestion," defence lawyer Brock Martland told the court.

The Canada Revenue Agency has found hundreds of millions of dollars in unreported income tax via B.C. real estate audits — over $1.1 billion in assessments since 2015.