The RCMP says a man has died in a plane crash in eastern Alberta near the Saskatchewan boundary.
Mounties in Kitscoty were notified of the crash shortly after takeoff.
Officers and first responders attended the site and located the wreckage.
RCMP says the 46-year-old man was declared dead on scene and the only occupant of the plane.
The man is from Rivercourse, about 275 kilometres east of Edmonton.
RCMP has extended condolences to his family and friends.
Vancouver International Airport is reminding travellers to plan ahead as it’s expecting its busiest travel days for December this week. Y-V-R says from today to December 26th, close to 70-thousand passengers will be travelling through the airport per day to 97 destinations.
Police in Delta say a woman has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of another woman earlier this week. They say officers went to a home in the city's Ladner neighbourhood around 5 p-m Monday and discovered a body.
One suspect has been arrested in a police operation in North Vancouver that delayed the start of three area schools. RCMP say officers responded to a report of an assault at around 5 a.m. Tuesday inside a home in the 1,000 block of Lytton Street.
B-C's police watchdog confirms that a man who was involved in an incident with police in Langley last month has been found dead. The Independent Investigations Office of B-C says human remains found at the scene of a fire in Langley are those of a man who had barricaded himself inside a building as police were outside on November 10th.
Police are warning BC car buyers after recent cases of people buying used vehicles that turned out to be stolen. The integrated auto crime team says they have worked on a number of cases where people have purchased cars either online or at used-car dealerships with fake vehicle identification numbers.
The skyrocketing rents in Metro Vancouver are slowing according to the latest report by Rentals-dot-C-A and Urbanation. The report says the area's asking rents in November rose less than 1 per cent from last year, reaching an average rental unit price of three-thousand-171-dollars.