B.C.

VANCOUVER – The sister of a retired soldier who was shot by RCMP in British Columbia says the investigation into Greg Matters’ death in Prince George should be reopened.

VANCOUVER – A veteran mediator has turned down a request to try to settle British Columbia’s teachers strike.

SURREY, B.C. – Homicide investigators in Surrey, B.C., have laid charges in the recent death of a man.

VANCOUVER – Vancouver police say they’ve arrested two men in connection with a murder outside a halfway house that investigators believe was a case of mistaken identity.

VICTORIA – Police in Victoria have issued a warning to cyclists after someone strung fishing line across a bike route near the city’s downtown.

VANCOUVER – A strong earthquake has rumbled off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.

VANCOUVER – A British Columbia trade union is challenging work permits issued to eight Americans doing construction on a power project in the province’s north, alleging the company used a visa loophole rather than hire Canadians.

SALMON ARM, B.C. – A B.C. woman is recovering from surgery after being accidentally shot in the back during a camping trip.

PENTICTON, B.C. – The mother of a 22-year-old woman wept as she recounted the emotional turmoil her daughter has endured since being beaten and sexually assaulted over several hours inside a second hand store in Penticton, B.C.

VANCOUVER – Police in Vancouver are recommending charges after executing a search warrant at a marijuana dispensary.

SURREY, B.C. – A man murdered in Surrey, B.C., is well known to police on both sides of the Canada/U.S. border and he even appeared on a popular TV show about women who marry impostors after his ex-wife claimed she lost $50,000 to him.

VANCOUVER – B.C. high school students may have studied for weeks in preparation for provincial English and Social Studies exams, but a last minute change means they will have to do some mental juggling as they turn over their papers.

SURREY, B.C. – British Columbia’s privacy commissioner and the education ministry have been alerted to an incident involving one high school in Surrey, B.C., and about 250 of its students.

LUMBY, B.C. – A Lumby, B.C., resident remains in hospital in the Okanagan recovering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but RCMP say he has now been charged with second degree murder.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. – Another international student at a university in Kamloops, B.C., has been convicted of a violent crime — the third such case in the last year.

VANCOUVER – School trustees in B.C. are calling on striking teachers and the government to immediately resume bargaining now that both sides have agreed a mediator must step in to resolve the labour dispute.

VICTORIA – Children’s advocate Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond says British Columbia’s government must do more to protect children from their drug-addicted and alcoholic parents.

NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. – A group calling itself “Settlers on Stolen Land” padlocked the doors on the constituency offices of two British Columbia Conservative MPs to protest the federal government’s approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline.