Coquitlam R-C-M-P say they are looking for a man who stole a Salvation Army donation kettle from a local mall.
Police say the theft happened on December 3rd at Coquitlam Centre Mall's southeast entrance facing Pinetree Way.
The suspect was wearing a medical mask, and police describe him as around 40-to-50-years in age and of a medium build.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact the R-C-M-P immediately.
Parents of a 12-year-old boy who killed himself last month after falling prey to online sextortion are urging others to talk to their kids to make sure they don't also become victims of internet "predators." Mounties in Prince George issued a statement Monday, more than six weeks after the boy died, to warn parents about the risks youth face on the internet.
Reidar Mogerman, a lawyer for the B.C. government, told Justice Michael Brundrett on Monday the court should approve a class made of governments saddled with health-care costs related to the opioid crisis that has killed or injured thousands of Canadians.
The police watchdog is investigating a B.C. highway chase involving a tractor flying a protest banner against sexual orientation and gender identity programs in schools, something the province's attorney general called a "fringe" and "hateful" issue inflamed by the B.C. Conservatives. Surrey police said Sunday that one person was taken into custody after the tractor crashed with a cruiser and rolled on Highway 1.
One person is in police custody after a tractor rolled over on Surrey's Highway 1. BC Highway Patrol members encountered a person driving a tractor on Highway 1 at approximately 12:35pm on Saturday.
Avian flu has been identified at two more commercial poultry farms in Abbotsford. Figures from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency show there have been 44 B-C outbreaks of avian flu since October 20th.
A statement from the company says it has applied to the BC Labour Relations Board in the hope that mediation can break the impasse in the contract talks. One-hundred-and-38 members of the Public and Private Workers of Canada Local 8 have been off the job since September 28th -- and Rogers Sugar says the union has agreed to the mediation application.