The wildfire situation is continually evolving, and the information below is current as of 7 p.m. (Pacific time) on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Fires:Wildfires currently burning in B.C.: 238Since April 1, 2021: 1,552 wildfires 864,473 hectares of area burnedActive fires by fire centre: Cariboo: 26Coastal: 19Kamloops: 77Northwest: 5Prince George: 53Southeast: 58Resources:Firefighters and other personnel currently fighting the fires: 3,238Out-of-province firefighters: 466Helicopters and planes supporting ground crews: 124Evacuations:Evacuation orders: 35 (-11)Evacuation alerts: 83 (-7)Properties:Nu

B.C. is reporting 724 new cases of COVID-19, including five epi-linked cases, for a total of 162,693 cases in the province.There are 5,640 active cases of COVID-19 in the province and 155,096 people who tested positive have recovered. Of the active cases, 149 individuals are in hospital and 83 are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation. In the last 24 hours, two new deaths (Interior Health) have been reported, for an overall total of 1,804. From Aug. 11-24, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 82.4% of cases and 86.4% of hospitalizations.Past week

A 32 year old man is facing charges after a Vancouver Police dog was injured this morning while responding to a violent crime. VPD responded to a Downtown Eastside social housing complex that houses women and children shortly before 5 a.m. today after a man allegedly threatened several people and kicked at a resident’s door. The suspect fled when police arrived, but officers tracked him to a building near Keefer and Abbott streets.The suspect allegedly resisted arrest and bit Police Service Dog Mando, which was assisting in the arrest. With help from the injured dog, officers were able to ga

Surrey RCMP’s Gang Enforcement Team (SGET) arrested three men and seized a loaded firearm with help from bystanders. On August 21, 2021, the Surrey RCMP Gang Enforcement Team attempted to conduct a traffic stop in the 16800-block of 60 Avenue after observing the driver of an SUV violating the BC Motor Vehicle Act. The SUV failed to stop, and fled from police at high rate of speed. Additional SGET officers converged on the area, as the driver and two passengers abandoned the SUV in traffic and began to run away.As officers left their own vehicles and pursued the men on foot, they were assiste

Vancouver Police are searching for the owner of $12,000 in dental gold recovered earlier this year during a stolen-property investigation. "This is a strange and puzzling case, unlike anything our investigators have seen in a long time," says Sergeant Steve Addison, VPD. "We don’t know where this gold was taken from or who owns it, but we believe it was obtained through crime and we’re asking anyone with information to come forward."The dental gold – fillings, caps and bridges – was recovered in June after VPD property crime investigators learned it had been sold to a gold buyer in Eas

The wildfire situation is continually evolving, and the information below is current as of 7 p.m. (Pacific time) on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. Fires:Wildfires currently burning in B.C.: 243Since April 1, 2021:1,551 wildfires861,523 hectares of area burnedActive fires by fire centre:Cariboo: 26Coastal: 18Kamloops: 82Northwest: 5Prince George: 52Southeast: 60Resources:Firefighters and other personnel currently fighting the fires: 3,450Out-of-province firefighters: 464Helicopters and planes supporting ground crews: 138Evacuations:Evacuation orders: 46 (-2)Evacuation alerts: 90 (-6)Properties:Numbe

Emergency Management BC says the number of active wildfires in the province has fallen below 250.The agency says in a news release that the number of active wildfires in B.C. is about 240 and 22 of those fires are considered of note, which means they are highly visible or pose a potential threat to public safety. It says more than 3,400 firefighters from B.C. and more than 400 from out-of-province are helping fight the fires.The BC Wildfire Service says some of the major blazes _ such as White Rock Lake, Tremont Creek and Lytton Creek _ are still classified as out of control.The province has a

B.C. is reporting 698 new cases of COVID-19, including five epi-linked cases, for a total of 161,969 cases in the province.There are 5,356 active cases of COVID-19 in the province and 154,669 people who tested positive have recovered. Of the active cases, 139 individuals are in hospital and 75 are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.In the past 24 hours, one new death (Fraser Health) has been reported, for an overall total of 1,802. There have been two new health-care facility outbreaks at Brock Fahrni (Vancouver Coastal Health) and Spring Valley Ca

The RCMP say one person is believed to be dead and another is in hospital after part of a building collapsed in North Vancouver on Wednesday. Sgt. Peter DeVries says fire and rescue personnel determined that one person sustained "catastrophic" injuries, but it was still too dangerous to remove debris within the construction site in order to recover the body. The coroners service has yet to officially confirm the death, he says, while BC Emergency Health Services says the second person is in stable condition. DeVries says police don't believe anyone else was trapped. He says it looked like a "d