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VICTORIA — Fines for illegal hunting and fishing in British Columbia are more than doubling as the province cracks down on offences against wildlife.

NANAIMO — More than 50 people from a supportive-housing complex in Nanaimo, B.C., were displaced Sunday after a fire in a mattress that was started by a cigarette.

VICTORIA — A man convicted of first-degree murder for killing his business partner in Port Coquitlam, B.C., in 1994 has died in prison.

NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. — The head office of the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia in North Vancouver will be transformed into an urban housing development with hundreds of homes near major transit hubs.

VANCOUVER — Environment Canada says an unseasonable cool air mass over southern B.C. has broken minimum temperature records, including one dating back about 70 years.

VANCOUVER — A new health centre dedicated to serving British Columbia's French-language speakers will open its doors this fall in Vancouver. A statement from B.C.

When catastrophic floods severed a bridge and washed away or closed highways in southern British Columbia, Mitchell Dyck and other patients needing regular life-saving dialysis had to be flown to hospital by helicopter.

MISSION, BRITISH COLUMBIA — RCMP in Mission, B.C., say search and rescue crews have recovered the body of a 37-year-old boater who had been missing since Friday night.

WHITE ROCK, B.C. — Environment Canada said storms tracking over British Columbia's south coast on Saturday brought hail to the region, with one witness reporting pellets the size of large peas blanketing his local streets.

FORT NELSON, B.C. — Parts of northeastern British Columbia are under rainfall warnings as a narrow band of intense storms moves through the area.