B-C’s police watchdog is investigating the death of a man while in the custody of Chilliwack R-C-M-P.
Mounties say they were called yesterday afternoon to a report of a fight inside a vehicle sitting on a city street.
The Independent Investigations Office says in a statement the man went into medical distress and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The office says it's looking to see if police actions or inactions contributed to the man’s death.
The Sidney/North Saanich RCMP is asking for the public's help locating two men who went missing while kayaking from D'Arcy Island to View Beach on Saturday afternoon. The RCMP say the men were in a teal blue fibreglass, two-person, tandem kayak. They are identified as Daniel MacAlpine, 36, and twenty-six-year-old Nicholas West.
The Abbotsford Police Department says it is investigating a fatal collision involving an unidentified female on Highway 11, known locally as the Abbotsford-Mission highway. Police say the collision occurred Saturday night in the 5300 block of Highway 11.
A rescue operation for an orca calf trapped in a remote tidal lagoon off Vancouver Island has been put on hold after it started eating seal meat thrown in the water for what is believed to be the first time.
Nearly $16 million in federal and provincial funding is going toward the solar farm in Anahim Lake, home to the Ulkatcho First Nation, where power is currently diesel generated.
Mounties in Prince George are investigating an early-morning crash of a vehicle hitting the side of a Walmart. Police say when officers arrived at about 2:30 this morning to find a young driver, with the person's family already on the scene.
Mounties in Richmond are warning the public about fraudsters posing as police officers demanding money. R-C-M-P say they’ve received seven reports involving criminals posing as Chinese police or government officials who demand money from victims in the last two months.