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.
The man and the victim were known to each other, the release says.
The victim has been identified as 43-year-old Ashley Burke.
Police say her death is considered an intimate partner homicide.
They say they will continue to withhold the cause of death for investigative purposes.
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.
A sentencing hearing for a Calgary couple in the death of their badly burned and emaciated toddler has been scheduled for next year. Sonya Pasqua and Michael Sinclair pleaded guilty last week to manslaughter. Gabriel Sinclair-Pasqua, who was 18 months old, died in 2021 after suffering major burns to a third of his body.
TransLink says a new SkyTrain station in Richmond is open to the public today for regular service. The Capstan station, which will link the existing Bridgeport and Aberdeen stations, will be a new Canada Line stop.
Police say a man has been arrested after an assault in North Delta. Police say officers arrived at a home at 1:20 p-m yesterday and found one person with serious injuries.