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WHITEHORSE — Yukon says its Communicable Disease Control and the territory's chief medical officer have confirmed a case of whooping cough on a flight from Whitehorse to Vancouver earlier this month.

SURREY, B.C. — British Columbia's independent police watchdog has cleared officers of wrongdoing in a crash where three people were killed south of Kamloops in July of last year.

PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. — British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service says a man from Abbotsford, B.C., has pleaded guilty to two counts of trafficking in black bear paws.

SQUAMISH, B.C. — Police in Squamish, B.C., have issued a warning against vigilante action over safety concerns they say are circulating on social media.

FREDERICTON — The offspring of beetles imported from British Columbia are ready to take up the fight against an invasive insect that is killing hemlock trees in Nova Scotia.

VANCOUVER — Environment Canada is warning drivers who intend to travel Highway 3 from the Paulson Summit and Kootenay Pass about hazardous conditions due to "rapidly accumulating snow.

When Niigaan Sinclair pitched his collection of articles to a Toronto publisher, he was told “Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre” was a “regional book.

VANCOUVER — Wind warnings covered much of British Columbia's south and central coast Tuesday night, while Environment Canada added a rainfall warning for Haida Gwaii and a winter storm warning for a section of Highway 3 in the southern Interior.

BURNABY, B.C. — Mounties in Burnaby say westbound lanes of Highway 1 near the city have been shut after a multi-vehicle crash. They say just before 3 a.m.

Second World War veteran Percival Smith was a teenager when he entered the British Merchant Navy, but after years at sea he emerged as a man who returned to a family he "couldn't even recognize" after the war.