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WINNIPEG — A totem pole that has stood on the grounds of the Manitoba legislature for more than 50 years has come down. The five-metre-high pole was unveiled in 1971 to mark the 100th anniversary of British Columbia's entry into Confederation.

VANCOUVER — The British Columbia election campaign is about to reach a critical juncture with the three main party leaders set to square off in a television debate Tuesday. It's the only televised debate of the campaign ahead of voting day on Oct.

VANCOUVER — Vancouver police say a man with more than 50 criminal convictions is back in custody after allegedly stealing a police car and taking it for a ride, endangering bystanders in a park on Sunday.

MERRITT — Police in British Columbia say one person is dead and four others are injured following a serious single-vehicle rollover near Merritt. RCMP were called to the scene at around 3:50 p.m.

SURREY — A 33-year-old man died after a pickup truck crashed into a bus stop bench in Surrey, B.C., where two people were waiting for a bus.

There are just a handful of surviving photos taken in B.C. of Sant Teja Singh, a Sikh intellectual who held great influence in the early Canadian Sikh communities.

KELOWNA — RCMP say a 43-year-old man is facing a second-degree murder charge in a fatal stabbing that left another man dead in Kelowna, B.C., almost two years ago.

North Vancouver-based Canpac Marine Services Inc., a privately held company, contracted with several B.C.-based marine firms to build the “droid of the deep.”

The Cessna 185, which was heading to a logging camp in the area, turned upside down after landing in Warner Bay about 4 p.m. Wednesday

The city began receiving reports about goldfish in the pond last year, which raised concerns because goldfish have a high reproductive rate