Two people have been arrested in Quesnel after a home invasion early Sunday morning.
Police say two suspects broke into a home shortly after 2 a.m., sprayed a person inside with bear spray and damaged several items inside.
The suspects and the victim were known to each other, and police later went to a home with a search warrant where they arrested a 22-year-old woman.
A 26-year-old man, who was reported to have a handgun during the robbery, hasn’t been found yet.
The two men found guilty of human smuggling in the case of a family from India who froze to death while trying to walk across the Canada-U.S. border in Manitoba in 2022 are seeking acquittal, or new trials. The two men, Steve Shand of Florida and Harshkumar Patel, an Indian national arrested in Chicago, were convicted by a Minnesota jury in November on all four counts each were facing.
Edmonton Police have laid charges after a woman was found dead on a bank of the North Saskatchewan River last week. In a news release, police say a 31-year-old man has been arrested and charged with second degree murder.
Government data shows the number of Albertans receiving provincial income support has reached a five-year high. As of October, almost 57,500 residents were getting income support.
Vancouver Police say they arrested an armed man in Kitsilano who tried to hide from officers in a dumpster. The Vancouver Police Department says officers used a police dog and a beanbag shotgun in the arrest of the man who had reportedly been in people's backyards in the area of the Arbutus greenway.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says more cases of Avian flu have been detected in B-C. The agency says the virus was detected over the weekend at a commercial poultry property in Abbotsford.
Police in Abbotsford are investigating after officers found what are believed to be human remains inside a vehicle that was set on fire in Sumas Mountain Regional Park. They say officers responded to a report of a vehicle fire on Friday around 2:45 p.m. along the Forest Service Road in the park and arrived to find the red 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander ablaze.