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In July 2010, Karin Donoval had just finished filming the first few scenes of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, for which she had been cast as Maurice, a male Bornean orangutan.

"People can still overdose on it. It's an unsupervised model. Also, this doesn't purify the stimulant use supply."

The pedestrian is in hospital with serious but not fatal injuries.

The pedestrian was taken to hospital and is in serious, but non-life threatening condition.

Revelstoke Search and Rescue (SAR) are looking for two sledders reported missing on Boulder Mountain around 4:30 Saturday afternoon.

Two sledders were missing overnight on Boulder Mountain near Revelstoke.

Mind-Body medicine practitioner Dr. Divi Chandna shares ways you can improve your mind-body health in 2018.

Caren McSherry scours the fridge to make a healthy, hearty vegetable and lentil soup, perfect for a cold winter day.

UBC Men’s hockey team is set to host its Winter Classic January 19th. It’s one of their biggest games of the year.

Caren McSherry of Gourmet Warehouse prepares a hearty vegetable lentil soup.

Mounties say it happened around 10:30 p.m. in the area of Griffiths Ave. and Halligan St.

Surrey RCMP said they responded to an incident in the 17800-block of 64 Ave. at 12:25 a.m.

2017 was Kamloops Search and Rescue's busiest year on record due to its role in the wildfire evacuations last summer and search for fire chief swept away by flood waters in May.

Investigators say the incident that shut down an intersection in Surrey, B.C. for just over ten hours is a homicide.

"In such a short amount of time, it's gone from the norm, to the exception, and even though we're all complicit in it, none of us can figure out why."

Two men, both from Kelowna, rented snowmobiles from a local company Saturday to go sledding on Boulder Mountain but failed to return at the arranged time.

Two men, both from Kelowna, rented snowmobiles from a local company Saturday to go sledding on Boulder Mountain but failed to return at the arranged time.

In just one week in December, two B.C. communities played host to alleged acts of domestic homicide, and now two fathers stand accused of murdering their children.

B.C. has yet to welcome Uber or its rival, Lyft. Meanwhile, some drivers are eager for the service to arrive — despite what some cab companies in Metro Vancouver say is a shortage of drivers in the taxi industry.

B.C. has yet to welcome Uber or its rival, Lyft. Meanwhile, some drivers are eager for the service to arrive — despite what some cab companies in Metro Vancouver say is a shortage of drivers in the taxi industry.

Police are investigating a double shooting that happened in South Vancouver on Saturday night.

The Vancouver Canucks took the Toronto Maple Leafs into a shootout, and left with a 3-2 loss.

Protesters at the Vancouver Art Gallery rallied in support of those in Iran, the largest demonstrations to be held in that nation since the 2009 Green Movement.

The steep climb in global meat consumption has some environmental groups calling for a sin tax on animal products.

Two men in their 20's are in hospital after what Vancouver Police believe was a targeted shooting.

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Thousands of people headed to Big White Ski Resort to meet athletes heading to the Olympics.

The Toronto Maple Leafs won by shootout for the second game in a row, surviving a close call in overtime to edge the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 Saturday night.

A worker has died on the job at an industrial site in Richmond.

Chaos inside a West Jet plane after it was hit by another plane at Toronto’s Pearson airport.

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A Maple Ridge vet is warning pet owners to come clean about their drug use if their pets are getting sick.

The local Iranian community showing their support today, for those struggling in Iran’s poor economy.

The City of Langford is buying residential properties downtown and turning them into surface parking lots in a bid to keep to keep parking free.

Students and staff at Heritage Woods Secondary School in Port Moody and Eagle Mountain Middle School in Anmore have been warned to stay out of marked areas nearby that are contaminated with E.Coli and fecal coliform.

The tenor saxophone belonging to the late Ross Taggart — a name synonymous with Vancouver's jazz scene — vanished Friday after a rehearsal. The instrument was given to Taggart's friend Chris Startup and he would like it back.

“I just see dollar signs with our current situation."

"Those customers are now going to be very interested, if for no other reason, to jump ship just to get even with you."

There was a big send-off for Canada’s Olympic athletes ahead of next month’s Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Jules Knox reports from the Big White Ski Resort, near Kelowna, B.C.

Dog owners are often not totally upfront with vets when it comes to pot ingestion, which can delay treatment.

WorkSafe BC, police and the B.C. Coroners Service are investigating after a worked died from injuries sustained at Richmond Plywood Corporation on Vulcan Way.

"We can confirm that one person has been fatally injured at a workplace. WorkSafeBC is on scene and is investigating."

BC Hydro employee and Indigenous activist, Vicki George, is showing colleagues The Road Forward, a documentary about enshrining Indigenous rights in the Canadian Constitution, to further company conversations about truth and reconciliation.

A 49-year-old woman is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after she was shot early Saturday morning at an apartment in Vernon, B.C.

A 49-year-old woman is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after she was shot early Saturday morning at an apartment in Vernon, B.C.

"Some of the e-mails were pretty horrendous, and a lot of hate speech against LGBT families."

Master gardener Brian Minter told B.C. Almanac listeners to get ready to prune back those weighed down branches, but only once they thaw out.