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Here are your five things to do this weekend for Thursday July 12, 2018.

The video released Thursday shows the male suspect walking from a vehicle into a Burnaby gas station. He makes his way over to a fridge in the store before heading to the counter to pay.

Here are your five things to do this weekend around the province including the Vancouver Island Music Fest, PoCo Grand Prix and Hot July Nights in 100 Mile House.

Here are your five things to do this weekend around the province including the 41st annual Vancouver Folk Fest, the Tour de White Rock and the Parksville Beach Festival.

Burnaby RCMP is looking for the public’s help to identify a suspect wanted for injuring a police officer. Security camera video shows the male suspect leaving the Grey Dodge Nitro walking into a convenience store.

The B.C. government has purchased a historic farm on Vancouver Island and plans to relaunch a controversial therapeutic recovery program that closed earlier this year but with some changes.

Fire started in basement of a house in Maple Ridge and quickly spread to the attic, four res got out but firefighters had to rescue two one-month old kittens.

The Supreme Court of Canada will rule tomorrow on whether British Columbia has to hand millions of patients' health information over to tobacco giant Philip Morris International.

"I continue to ask myself how did good people make such bad decisions?" said the city's chief administrative officer.

Police are warning the public after several debit and credit card skimmers were found at Skytrain stations in Richmond earlier this week. What do the devices look like?

Fire crews are currently responding to a wildfire on the east side of Kamloops.

Police are asking for help to identify the body of a man that was discovered July 2, 1998 by a dog-walker near the Port Coquitlam Cemetery.

There were no injuries, no danger to the public or the environment, according to CN, which said crews worked overnight and into Thursday to clean up. 

There’s already been some interest from companies thinking about replacing Greyhound buses on B.C. highways, but the Passenger Transportation Board isn’t holding out much hope for remote rural routes.

The comedian claimed it happened out of prejudice. The company said the cheque was made payable to an incorporated company with numerous directors, and they all had to be there to cash it.

Clean up crews were on site at Gates Lake Thursday morning after a CN train derailed about 25 km north of Pemberton. CN says there are no dangerous goods on board.

British Columbia's biggest labour organization is pushing to make paid sick days mandatory for workers in the province and has launched a new campaign calling on the government to update the Employment Standards Act.

Michael Morgan got caught up in a new variation of a familiar scam.

Three days of talks between four casinos and its striking employees ended this week with no progress.

Transit police say a number of Skytrain riders may have had their debit and credit cards compromised — after card skimmers were found along the Canada Line.

A 50-year-old woman is dead after an early morning fire near Kennedy Lake Provincial Park.

Children's toy seller Build-A-Bear was forced to halt a promotion that allowed customers to pay their age after the publicity stunt became too popular and led to safety concerns from long lineups.

Yvonne Schalle tours the Crescent Heights home up for grabs in the Hometown Heroes Lottery.

Council has asked city staff to report back on the potential options for a new greenway in time for the route to be included in Vancouver's capital plan for 2019-2022.

B.C. will vote this fall on whether to keep the current first-past-the-post system, or switch to a system of proportional representation.

While diver Erik Brown was on the other side of the world helping with the rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach, his big brother Kirk’s role was to keep everybody calm back home in Langley, B.C.

It’s weird, it’s small. What is causing this unusual sinkhole that’s stopping traffic on the Lougheed Highway in Pitt Meadows?

Build-A-Bear Workshop was forced to close lines for its stores in Canada and the U.S. on Thursday during its Pay Your Age promotion.

A Global Okanagan news reporter tries to get through the obstacle course at the Vernon Cadet Training Centre.

The popular beach in Belcarra was closed on Saturday after several reports of a black bear getting into unattended food.

Travel expert Claire Newell shares tips on booking a vacation rental.

The sixth annual event kicks off in Abbotsford this Friday. Sonia Sunger sits down with the executive director to learn more about the event.

The Haida Nation wants tighter restrictions around a marine protected area that is the site of an ancient undersea volcano from which springs a supernatural being central to some of the nation's traditional stories.

The sinkhole appeared in the westbound left lane approximately 750 metres west of Allan Way on Wednesday evening and repair crews began working on it Thursday morning.

The sinkhole appeared in the westbound left lane approximately 750 metres west of Allan Way on Wednesday evening and repair crews began working on it Thursday morning.

Robert Latimer, convicted in the death of his severely disabled daughter Tracey, is seeking a pardon from the prime minister and justice minister.

A home in the 5200 block of Smith Avenue was hit with bullets early Wednesday.

Food Writer Pay Chen gives us her tips for the perfect food and décor combinations to make entertaining this summer simple and successful.

Burn survivor Diane Gardner is joined by Suzie Allen Logie of the BC Professional Firefighters’ Burn Unit explain how the money raised by the Hometown Heroes Lottery helps patients.

Burn survivor Diane Gardner is joined by Suzie Allen Logie of the BC Professional Firefighters’ Burn Unit explain how the money raised by the Hometown Heroes Lottery helps patients.

On July 2, 1998, a man's body was discovered by someone walking a dog near the Port Coquitlam Cemetery. 

A conservationist is "shocked" by a video that show girls feeding bears through the patio door of a Vancouver-area home, and says the bears may have to be shot if the feeding continues.

A conservationist is 'shocked' by the footage and says the bears may have to be shot if the feeding continues.

Scientists think they’ve tracked down a source of mysterious high-energy cosmic rays that have been puzzling for over a century. The trail of a “ghost particle" detected at the South Pole pointed the way.

The owner of the oldest juke point in Mississippi, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, will tug at heartstrings on the CBC Musical Nooners stage on Thursday, July 12th.

Provincial authorities are restricting commercial huckleberry harvesting in the Kootenay-Boundary region to preserve a critical food supply for grizzly bears.

Investigators say the credit- and debit-card skimmers were located on vending machines at the Vancouver International Airport and Vancouver City Centre stations.

Vancouver City Centre and YVR Airport stations were targeted specifically on July 8 by card skimmers.

Walmart and other companies involved are apologizing after a group of women complained about how a line of T-shirts marketed its wares.

There’s an unwritten rule in federal politics that says parties don’t run candidates against party leaders looking to secure their own seats. It looks like an exception will be made in Jagmeet Singh’s case.