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POWELL RIVER, B.C. — A British Columbia First Nation has issued a state of emergency after confirmation that four members have COVID-19 and several others are reporting symptoms of the virus.

VANCOUVER — Air quality warnings have been issued for large sections of southern British Columbia as wildfire smoke from the United States is pushed north.

FORT ST. JAMES, B.C. — The RCMP's Major Crime Unit has taken over a missing person investigation in northern British Columbia.

VANCOUVER — Police say a man who was punched in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has died. Const. Tania Visintin says 36-year-old Neil Scarisbrick died on Monday. He is Vancouver's 11th homicide victim this year.

CLEARWATER, B.C. — A woman is facing a second-degree murder charge after a man's body was found in a remote area of B.C. RCMP say Ashleigh Tschritter has been charged in relation to the death of David Simpson from Clearwater, B.C.

SQUAMISH, B.C. — Mounties say one woman is dead and another is seriously injured after two different hiking accidents along the Sigurd trail system near Squamish, B.C.

BURNABY, B.C. — Mounties are investigating after a fight between party bus passengers sent two 17-year-old boys to hospital with stab wounds.

WHISTLER, B.C. — Mounties are providing more details about a crash that sent two kids to hospital and closed the Sea to Sky highway south of Whistler for several hours on Saturday afternoon.

Vancouver Coastal Health is warning the public of several new potential exposures to COVID-19 at bars and nightclubs on Granville Street.