RCMP investigating suspicious death in South Cariboo

RCMP vehicle. (Patrick Davies photo - 100 Mile Free Press)
E Division’s Major Crime Section has taken over the investigation from the 100 Mile RCMP
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) board member Martin Steward speaks in MacLean Park in Vancouver on Oct. 4. The group says new provincial restrictions on public drug consumption will have deadly effects on the community. (Jane Skrypnek/Black Press Media)

B.C. drug users group says new consumption rules stigmatizing them further
Abbotsford South MLA Bruce Banman made, then withdraw a controversial statement while quoting from the children’s book Eleanor & Park, while speaking as House Leader of the Conservative Party of B.C. (Screen Capture).

Conservative MLA Bruce Banman prompts QP controversy over library books
Federal court ruling sets back health workers seeking psilocybin mushroom access

Federal court ruling sets back health workers seeking psilocybin mushroom access
A look into the future of luxury air travel, from game-changing privacy to supersonic flights

A look into the future of luxury air travel, from game-changing privacy to supersonic flights

People are attending from other police forces, fire departments, other emergency services, the military, and even sports organizations he supported. (Colleen Flanagan/Black Press Media)

Family, first responders pay tribute to Const. Rick O’Brien
Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider, left, takes the ball from pitcher Jose Berrios during a pitching change in the fourth inning of Game 2 of an AL wild-card baseball playoff series against the Minnesota Twins Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Twins win 2-0, eliminate Blue Jays in MLB wild-card series sweep
Racers push off from the start line, competing in the men’s pair during a qualifying race on Friday morning on Quamichan Lake. The 2023 Canadian National Rowing Championships were being held on the lake over the weekend. (Sarah Simpson/Citizen)

BC rowers put on a show at Canadian National Championships in North Cowichan
People rally on Parliament Hill on an International Day of Action to Search the Landfills, in Ottawa, on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. The remains of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and another woman named as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, killed by an alleged serial killer, are believed to be in a landfill north of Winnipeg. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Indigenous women, girls killed at rate 6 times higher than non-Indigenous: StatCan
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British Columbia couple Dave Chan and Janet Love pose with “Mama,” their 2,212-pound pumpkin that won the National Pumpkin Weigh Off in Wheatland, Calif., on Sept. 30, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO

B.C. man takes 1-tonne pumpkin on road trip to win California weigh-off

The Lacey family trailer sitting on the property of what was to be their brand new home in West Kelowna before a wildfire swallowed the build and destroyed many neighbouring properties. (Facebook/Patrick Lacey)

Wildfire takes home, thieves take hope for West Kelowna family

Liberal MP Greg Fergus stands during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, Dec. 2, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

House of Commons elects Liberal MP Greg Fergus as 1st Black Canadian Speaker

Border services officers discovered nearly 200kg of opium inside two shipping containers entering B.C. in August. (Photo courtesy of Canada Border Services Agency)

Opium found stuffed in furniture, machinery entering B.C.

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RCMP members escorted the hearse at the regimental funeral of Const. Rick O’Brien on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (Dan Ferguson/Black Press Media)

Funeral underway in Langley for Ridge Meadows RCMP constable

Const. Rick O’Brien being honoured with procession and funeral which is being livestreamed

Dixie Champ (left) with Dede Shave, both residents at Lake View Village in Nelson. A residential tenancy arbitrator has ruled that Golden Life Management’s rent increase on Champ’s apartment was illegal. The decision has implications for other residents, including Shave. Photo: Bill Metcalfe

B.C. senior wins dispute after landlord raises rent over legal limit

Decision involves seniors housing facilities

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Bo Bichette, left, is tagged out at home plate by Minnesota Twins catcher Ryan Jeffers after an infield single by Kevin Kiermaier during the fourth inning in Game 1 of an AL wild-card baseball playoff series Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Minnesota Twins beat Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 in AL wild-card opener

Rookie Royce Lewis leads winners with two homers

Masai Ujiri, President of Toronto Raptors speaks to reporters during media day in Toronto on Monday October 2, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

‘No selfishness’: Toronto Raptors cultural reset begins at B.C. training camp

Head coach said things like taking poor shots or over-dribbling the ball won’t be allowed this season

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FILE - George Takei arrives at the Star Trek Day celebration in Los Angeles on Sept. 8, 2021. Takei has a picture book scheduled for next spring that draws upon his early childhood years spent in internment camps for Japanese-Americans. Takei’s “My Lost Freedom,” illustrated by Michelle Lee, will be published April 30. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

George Takei picture book on his years in internment camps will be published next spring

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Charlie, a 22-year-old donkey, has found his forever home at a farm in B.C. after a viral post by BC SPCA back in September. (BC SPCA)

Senior donkey finds forever home at B.C. farm

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Sgt. Rob Welsman thanking Simpcw First Nation councillor, Tina Donald and all of those attending on behalf of RCMP regarding the Memorandum of Understanding signing between Simpcw and B.C. RCMP on July 25 at Chu Chua. (Photo by: Hettie Buck)

Simpcw First Nation signs MOU with RCMP

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Located 15 km. (9.3 mi.) northwest of the community of Barriere. From the city of Kamloops travel north on Hwy. #5 (Yellowhead Hwy.). Pass through Barriere on Hwy. #5 and turn west (left) onto Petersen Cr. Road and follow it to Gorman Lake. (Photo by: Ellen Monteith of Barriere, B.C.)

Beautiful fall day near Barriere visiting Gorman Lake

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FILE - Beyonce performs at a Get Out the Vote concert for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 4, 2016. Beyoncé shined the brightest in a city full of Hollywood stars during the second night of her epic Renaissance Tour show on Saturday night, Sept 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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This combination of images shows, from left, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and Stephen Colbert. The late-night hosts are scheduled to return to the air on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, the first time in five months that they’ll have new shows due the writers strike, which concluded last week. (AP Photo)

Late-night shows return after writers strike

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The author and Rick O’Dell’s famous baby blue Plymouth back in the day at Western Speedway. (Wolf family photo)

WOLF: Since when did cars from the ’80s become ‘classics’?

COLUMN: T-tops off, mullet flowing in the wind

Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for the Williams Lake Tribune. (File photo)

FOREST INK: Drones can be useful in fighting wildfires

Drone technology can be used to find wildfire hot spots and some search and rescue work

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    Giant panda Xiao Qi Ji plays at his enclosure at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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    The residential gruup “Núñez Chinchilla” is located north of the great plaza of Copan, an ancient Maya site in western Honduras, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

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    Leslie Groulx, a Clearwater resident and community connector, will be the new FIR Program Advisor within Thompson Country, covering areas such as Barriere, Little Fort, Clearwater, Vavenby and Blue River. Photo courtesy Community Futures

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      Gord Wilson and his dog Freddy.

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