Police say a pilot and passenger are dead after an amateur-built plane crashed about two kilometres north of the Merritt airport last night.
R-C-M-P describe the two-seat aircraft as being "homebuilt" and "amphibious."
The Transportation Safety Board says a team of investigators is being deployed to the site.
Merritt R-C-M-P say they're working with the safety board and the B-C Coroners Service to determine the factors contributing to the crash.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada expects to hit the NATO defence spending target in 2032. The 32 members of the alliance agreed last year to spend at least the equivalent of two per cent of national gross domestic product on defence.
The steering committee was formed in late May with the goal of having overdose prevention and response actions in place on B-C campuses for this year's fall semester.
Police in Vancouver are looking for witnesses after a 53-year-old cyclist was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a collision with a vehicle. They say the biker was struck on East 10th Avenue Clark Drive intersection around 6 a-m yesterday.
The latest spans a portion of the District of Wells, about 80 kilometres east of Quesnel in the province's central Interior, where the BC Wildfire Service map shows a cluster of more than two dozen new fires in the area.
Police say the car left the road and crashed down an embankment. The Mounties say the three passengers were pronounced dead at the scene, while the driver was taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries.
Air Canada Cargo says in a statement that it was handling a shipment of eels from Toronto to Vancouver on July 7 when one container box accidentally spilled during unloading.