Police are asking for the public's help in reuniting cremated remains with the rightful guardian.
Mounties in Richmond say someone left a package at the outbound international screening checkpoint at Vancouver International Airport on November 27th.
They say officers examined the package and found it contains cremated remains.
The R-C-M-P say they've been unable to locate the owner, and they're asking anyone with information to contact them.
New York State Police are reporting that one person is dead and 11 people are injured after a bus coming from Montreal crashed on Interstate Highway 87 in Lake George, N.Y. Police say that in addition to the death, one passenger suffered serious injuries and 10 people were left with minor injuries after a Skyway Coach Line tour bus crashed at around 12:50 p.m. today.
A major shift in United States pharmaceutical policy allowing for the importation of drugs from Canada is creating fears about future drug shortages in this country. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans Friday to allow Florida to import millions of dollars worth of pharmaceuticals from Canadian wholesalers as a way to avoid the high cost of drugs in that country.
In early December 2023, police in Abbotsford, B.C., revealed that extortion letters had been circulating among businesses in the city and that its major crime unit was looking into them. Abbotsford police said at the time that social media posts depicting an extortion letter were consistent with what they'd been seeing.
Police in Vancouver say a man posing as a parent tried to take a five-year-old girl from a home daycare, in what they call a "troubling" case. They say the incident happened on Dec. 13, when a man showed up at the East Vancouver after-school daycare at about 3:30 p.m. and asked for the girl by name.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has stepped into a missing person case involving a B.C. man whose disappearance police now say is suspicious. The team says in a news release that foul play is suspected in the disappearance of 41-year-old Jamie Bristol of Chilliwack, B.C.
Former conflict of interest and ethics commissioner Mary Dawson has died. The commissioner's office posted a statement on its website today announcing it is saddened to learn of Dawson's death on Dec.24.