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  Nearly $10K in gear stolen from volunteer fire department in Okanagan recovered: RCMP

  Mounties arrested a man after recovering nearly $10,000 in gear stolen from a volunteer fire department in the Okanagan earlier this week.

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  Union of B.C. Municipalities votes in favour of resolution to allow pets in non-profit housing

  The Union of B.C. Municipalities approved a resolution to support pet-friendly housing in the non-profit sector.

• Premier promises B.C.’s mayors $86M to speed up housing, fight fires, provide cancer travel

  Premier David Eby has made several funding announcements at an annual gathering of B.C.’s mayors and councillors, promising millions in new funding to address the housing crisis and community firefighting as well as travel costs for rural cancer patients.

• Charges laid after 'brazen' assault of woman on Coquitlam trail: RCMP

  A man has been charged with assault with a weapon and assault by choking in relation to what police described as a "brazen" stranger attack on a woman on a Coquitlam trail earlier this month.

• Firefighters battle overnight blaze at abandoned 'party' house in Horseshoe Bay

  Fire crews from two cities spent Thursday night battling a blaze at an abandoned house in Horseshoe Bay.

• Parks Canada closes B.C.'s Emerald Lake due to suspected case of whirling disease

  Parks Canada says it is investigating a suspected case of whirling disease in Emerald Lake in B.C.'s Yoho National Park.

• 'Completely and utterly unfair:' B.C.-based cleaning company called out again for delaying payments to workers

  Contractors for the B.C.-based, Canada-wide cleaning company Scrubbi say they're owed hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of dollars.

• Here's what's in the forecast for the first days of fall in B.C.

  Much of British Columbia will welcome the first week of fall with wet, cool conditions after enduring a summer of drought.

• Stretch of Highway 97 impacted by rockslide reopening to 2 lanes of traffic

  Highway 97 between Summerland and Peachland will reopen to two lanes of traffic Friday at noon, as work to stabilize the route after a massive rockslide continues.

• Cyber security officials urge 'vigilance' against threats as Zelenskyy visits Canada

  As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits Canada, top security officials are re-issuing a call to 'adopt a heightened state of vigilance, and to bolster … awareness of and protection against malicious cyber threats.'

• Victims' family angry after senior charged in double killing released on bail

  A grieving family is outraged that the man accused in a double killing in Chilliwack last week is being released on bail.

• 'They were good men': Colleague remembers 4 B.C. wildland firefighters killed in head-on collision near Kamloops

  A team leader at Tomahawk Ventures, a company contracted by the province to fight forest fires, is remembering four colleagues who died when their pickup truck crashed into a semi truck on the Trans-Canada Highway near Kamloops early Tuesday morning.

• Is a 'no-tipping' policy ready to be adopted by Canadian restaurants?

  As Canadians report their frustrations with 'out-of-control' tipping culture, some wonder whether it is time to remove the option to tip at restaurants and is it even possible amid rising food costs?

• B.C.'s tech upgrades: Next-Gen 911 and artificial intelligence at city hall

  It may be happening too slow for some and too fast for others, but technological innovations are taking place in British Columbia's municipalities, with cybersecurity and funding key considerations as they move forward.

• B.C. First Nation research finds 158 child deaths at four facilities

  An investigation into unmarked graves and missing children by British Columbia's Sto:lo Nation has revealed at least 158 deaths, most of them at an Indigenous hospital.

• 6 rescued seals released into the wild after being separated from their mothers

  After weeks of intensive care, six rescued seals have now headed back into the wild in what is the first seal release of this year's rescue season, according to the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society.

• Destructive West Kelowna, B.C., wildfire now considered 'held'

  The large wildfire that destroyed dozens of homes in West Kelowna, B.C., and was a key front in the province's most devastating fire season on record is now considered “held” after raging out of control since mid-August.

• B.C. woman wins right to continue using parking stall that strata says doesn't exist

  B.C.'s Civil Resolution Tribunal has ordered a Burnaby strata corporation to allow the owner of one of its units to continue parking in the parking stall she has used for more than a decade, even though the strata claims such a stall does not exist.

• Coastal GasLink fined more than $340K after 'repeated non-compliance'

  Citing "repeated non-compliance," the B.C. government's Environmental Assessment Office has fined the owners of the Coastal GasLink pipeline more than $340,000.

• Police release photo of semi-truck to aid investigation into crash that killed 22-year-old in Kamloops

  On the second anniversary of a fatal crash in Kamloops, RCMP have released a photo of a tractor-trailer in hopes of furthering the investigation.