Surrey R-C-M-P say there's been a propane leak at a gas station.
The station's surrounding area in the Port Kells neighbourhood has been evacuated. Mounties say roads have also been shut down.
They are asking residents to avoid the area around 88 Avenue and Harvie Road.
A B-C Supreme Court judge has sentenced a 35-year-old man from Kamloops to four years in prison for fatally stabbing another man outside a city centre motel more than three years ago. A jury had convicted James Sanford of manslaughter for the 2020 killing of a 34-year-old man.
British Columbia is shifting its ambulance paramedics staffing model for 60 rural and remote communities in what Health Minister Adrian Dix says is an "unprecedented" investment in emergency health care. Dix says three new staffing models for paramedics would increase the number of on-duty ambulance workers during nights and other off-peak times.
Federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser, who has been travelling across Canada to highlight such agreements made directly with cities, says he was also surprised by the backlash — but is not planning to back down.
The slow trickle of people allowed through the highly controlled Rafah border crossing out of Gaza has so far included 107 peopleon Canada's list of anticipated evacuees, and they are only allowed to remain in Egypt for 72 hours. The list includes Canadian citizens and permanent residents, as well as eligible family members who don't have immigration status in Canada.
The general director of Gaza City's main hospital says scores of wounded people are being treated at the Al-Shifa Hospital following overnight Israeli strikes and shelling.
Premier David Eby says social media behaviour that got the BC Green Party's deputy leader fired represents a "reprehensible" attack on provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry. Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi has also resigned as a Green candidate in the 2024 provincial election after liking a social media post that compared Henry to Josef Mengele, an infamous Nazi doctor who experimented on concentration camp victims during the Second World War.