Police say a 41-year-old man is accused of stealing more than 56-thousand dollars of merchandise from Burnaby's Metrotown shopping centre.
R-C-M-P say the man was identified as a suspect through video surveillance after thefts from a single store between September 8th and 17th.
They say officers arrested the suspect at the shopping centre last month.
The man faces six counts of theft over five-thousand-dollars.
A 56-year-old man has been charged after a fatal crash near Trail, B.C., in October 2022 that killed a mother of four and injured her children. BC Highway Patrol says Terry Jackson faces three charges, including the most serious allegation of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death.
The federal carbon price will increase April 1 to $85 per tonne, up from $60. British Columbia and Quebec are the only two provinces that do not use the federal carbon levy as they have their own equivalent systems.
Veteran British Columbia politician Mike de Jong has announced he will leave the legislature after a 30-year career in government and opposition. De Jong, who was first elected as a B.C. Liberal in a Fraser Valley byelection in 1994, says the time has come to leave the provincial legislature, but it may not be the end of his days in politics.
The purpose of this week's training camp is to support nations taking part in the Games to build year-round adaptive sports programs. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are scheduled to join the participants during some of the events at the camp today and Thursday in Whistler and on Friday in Vancouver.
Mounties in Surrey say a man wanted for nearly a year on kidnapping and other charges has been arrested in Winnipeg. Surrey R-C-M-P say they had a warrant from February last year against 49-year-old Fabian Yul Brown, who was wanted for a number of charges including assault, unlawful confinement, uttering threats, break and enter, fraud and possession of stolen property.
The BC Real Estate Association says there was a nearly 30 per cent increase in home sales last month compared with January 2023, while prices were also up. The association says 3,979 sales were completed last month, for an average price of $957,909, a more than 10-per-cent jump from the year before.