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  B.C. senior responds to vandalism with creative kindness

  Roger Barker was looking forward to exchanging a book at one of the Little Free Libraries that had been erected in his neighbourhood, until he found it vandalized.

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  Major crime unit called for suspicious death in Lake Cowichan, B.C.

  Major crime investigators on Vancouver Island have been deployed to assist in a suspected homicide case.

• Victim of Vancouver stranger attacks had surgery to reattach severed hand: police

  The surviving victim of a pair of stranger attacks in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday has undergone surgery to reattach his hand after it was severed in the assault, according to police.

• Propeller falls off BC Ferries vessel, spilling 800 litres of oil

  About 800 litres of light hydraulic oil have spilled into the sea from a BC Ferries vessel after one of its propellers fell off this week.

• BC United to run some candidates to keep party name alive, despite halting campaign

  British Columbia's Official Opposition BC United party says it will run some candidates in the Oct. 19 election despite recently suspending its "full provincewide" campaign to throw its support behind the surging B.C. Conservative Party.

• Involuntary mental health care must be 'dignified and humane,' B.C. premier says

  Premier David Eby says mental health care in the province for those committed against their will needs to be "dignified and humane" to be effective, as his government works on a strategy about involuntary care.

• Flushing toilets will be required at B.C. construction sites soon

  What some B.C. construction workers describe as the worst aspect of their jobs will be coming to an end next month, the province announced.

• Man seriously injured in targeted shooting in North Vancouver

  Mounties say a man in his 50s is in serious but stable condition after a targeted shooting in North Vancouver.

• B.C. Interior wildfires show increased activity, triggering evacuation alert

  A growing cluster of out-of-control wildfires in the British Columbia Interior has forced officials to place residents in the area under an evacuation alert.

• Police release new details in fatal hit-and-run investigation in Merritt, B.C.

  Police have released new details in a fatal hit-and-run crash in the B.C. Interior last month, expanding the timeline of when they believe the man was struck by the still unidentified vehicle.

• Murder, aggravated assault charges laid in Vancouver stranger attacks

  Charges of murder and aggravated assault in a pair of brutal stranger attacks in downtown Vancouver were approved Thursday, one day after the rush-hour rampage left one man dead and another with a severed hand.

• Driver ticketed after striking mother, baby in B.C. crosswalk

  A 24-year-old driver has been ticketed for driving without due care and attention after striking a mother and her baby in a pedestrian crosswalk near Victoria.

• Watchdog calls for B.C. to boost oversight of old-growth forest on Quadra Island

  British Columbia's independent forest-practices watchdog says there's a risk that a coastal island won't have enough old-growth trees in the future due to inadequate monitoring of harvesting.

• Federal government's new hybrid work rules begin Monday: Here's what you need to know

  Starting Monday, Sept. 9, federal employees in the core public administration will be required to be in the office a minimum of three days a week, and executives will need to be on-site a minimum of four days a week.

• Police investigating body found after fire in Comox, B.C.

  Major crime detectives are investigating after firefighters discovered human remains at the scene of a house fire in Comox, B.C.

• B.C. Greens make election pledge for free transit, doubling of bus numbers

  B.C. Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau has announced an election policy to make all public transit in the province free.

• BC Conservatives decry 'lawlessness' after gruesome Vancouver stranger attacks

  After two grisly stranger attacks in downtown Vancouver, members of the BC Conservatives were quick to decry the crimes as the most recent example of the lawlessness and violence plaguing the city – directly contradicting statistics and assurances to the contrary provided by the chief of police.

• Teens charged after 'senseless and unprovoked' stabbing in New Westminster, B.C.

  Two teenagers have been charged in connection with a stabbing that left a man with major abdominal trauma in New Westminster, B.C.

• B.C. boy writes emotional song for grandfather he never met

  If you wanted Chase Varnes to beam as a baby, all you had to so what give him some Tupperware to bang on.

• 'Unprovoked' attacks in Vancouver leave man dead, another with severed hand

  A pair of stranger attacks in downtown Vancouver left one man dead and another with a severed hand on Wednesday morning.