Surrey Police Service (SPS) is investigating a targeted arson that caused extensive damage to three large trucks at Elegant Glass & Shower Mirrors in Surrey early Monday morning.
The incident occurred shortly after 4:30 a.m. on January 21, 2025. SPS Frontline officers arrived to find Surrey Fire Service already on the scene, working to extinguish fires engulfing three separate five-ton box trucks. Fortunately, no other vehicles or nearby structures were affected.
While the motive remains unclear, evidence collected by SPS’s Frontline Investigative Support Team suggests the act was deliberate. Investigators believe two suspects, both possibly males aged 16 to 40, were involved. The suspects were dressed in black and wore face coverings. They reportedly fled the scene in a dark-colored sedan.
SPS is urging anyone with information about the incident or the suspects to come forward. The investigation remains ongoing.
A 10-year-old boy has died after a snowmobile he was driving collided with a tree in southern Manitoba.
Mounties were called Sunday evening to a private property about six kilometres north of the community of Rosebank in the Pembina Valley region.
Mounties in Squamish say they have recovered BC Parks and search-and-rescue equipment that was stolen this fall.
They say in a news release that police received a report on Oct. 18 that a BC Parks storage unit had been broken into overnight and "large items" stolen.
The weather office says a "powerful frontal system" will then arrive on the south coast and Vancouver Island Christmas morning, with strong winds and heavy rain expected to last late into the night.
Vancouver's parks board says its popular Bright Nights Stanley Park Train will not return for the rest of the holiday season. It says in a news release that operations were stopped last week after exhaust from one of the train’s locomotives caused a driver to get sick.
Former B.C. premier Glen Clark is returning to the public eye, two years after leaving his high-profile position as president of Jim Pattison Group.
The provincial government has announced that Clark has been appointed to chair BC Hydro's board of directors, taking over for Lori Wanamaker, whose term ends on Dec. 31.
A British Columbia community's "out-of-the-box" plan to ease its family doctor shortage by hiring physicians as city employees is sparking interest from across Canada, says Colwood Mayor Doug Kobayashi. The mayor said the community has hired its first family doctor for a city-operated medical clinic, and the Victoria-area city is looking to hire seven more under the first-in-Canada pilot project.
