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Access to the Othello Tunnels in Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park near Hope, B.C., has been closed as emergency responders work to recover the body of a man believed to have drowned.

PRINCE GEORGE — A residential fire has killed two people in Prince George, B.C. A statement from the RCMP says firefighters told police they were responding to the blaze shortly before 2:30 p.m. on Friday.

ABBOTSFORD — A man originally accused of the second-degree murder of a young woman from Abbotsford, B.C., has been found guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter.

The Transportation Safety Board says a number of factors could have led to a fatal helicopter crash in British Columbia last year but it makes no final finding of the cause.

MAPLE RIDGE — British Columbia's police watchdog says three people are dead after an overnight incident in Maple Ridge, with one death involving a self-inflicted injury. Spokeswoman Rebecca Whalen with the Independent Investigations Office of B.C.

ABBOTSFORD — Police say they are investigating the "suspicious" death of a patient who had been living in a care home in Abbotsford, B.C.

VANCOUVER — City council in Vancouver has voted to immediately ban the sale of gun-shaped lighters to reduce the public safety risk.

Rancher John Parkes wants more water storage in B.C.'s Interior, which is suffering the impacts of a multi-year drought.

SURREY — Rojun Alphonse was a "great family man," who was proud of his Indigenous roots, and the circumstances around his death remain an open wound for his family and the community, said Chief Willie Sellars of the Williams Lake First Nation in B.C.

VANCOUVER — The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms says a nurse who was sanctioned by the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives has filed two human rights complaints with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal.