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KITIMAT, B.C. — Employees at a lodge housing workers for LNG Canada's under-construction facility in Kitimat, B.C., have won wage increases of up to 40 per cent, averting a strike.

VANCOUVER — A wildfire in southeastern British Columbia that was first spotted Monday afternoon has charred nine square kilometres and is threatening more than 1,000 properties, including a ski resort, west of Invermere.

British Columbia rancher Suzanne Fradette had just got off the phone with a hay broker who had grim news amid an ongoing drought that has sent feed prices soaring: "It's bad out there.

The 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. sailings out of Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen all reached capacity Sunday, which is “pretty unusual,” said B.C. Ferries.

The mission is to find international fishing fleets, board the vessels and check their catches

Fernand Uregel Regimbal, 52, died from his injuries.

Someone who was beside an unconscious person stabbed Colin Dube-Wheat in the chest twice, puncturing his lung and heart.

Mounties in Surrey, B.C., say a driver who fled from authorities in the U.S., sped through the Peace Arch border crossing and crashed in British Columbia is now in custody.

It is only a little bird, weighing a few ounces, but the marbled murrelet is known for its remarkable ability to fly far out to sea to catch fish before returning in the darkness of night to inland treetop nests on mossy limbs.

“[They] sit on their eggs, don’t move, don’t eat and just defend the eggs for a minimum of four and a half years.”