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LYTTON, sa国际传媒 鈥� Three years after a wildfire destroyed much of the British Columbia village of Lytton, the tiny Fraser Canyon community is still struggling to get back on its feet.

TERRACE 鈥� The newest draft treaty signed in British Columbia will allow the First Nation to 鈥渂reak free from the shackles of the Indian Act鈥� and take control of their future, the head of the provincial treaty commission said Tuesday.

The initiative builds on the Great Bear Rainforest model, which has protected large swaths of old-growth forests while supporting job creation and economic diversification for communities along the coast.

LILLOOET 鈥� The British Columbia Wildfire Service says its crews are responding to a 30-hectare wildfire billowing smoke over Highway 99 north of Lillooet.

TERRACE 鈥� A draft treaty decades in the making has been signed by a First Nation in British Columbia's northwest, moving the nation away from the "repressive and outdated Indian Act," its chief said.

VICTORIA 鈥� British Columbia's Public Service Agency breached its own policy against hiring government appointees dozens of times over a 10-year period, a report from the provincial Ombudsperson says.

VANCOUVER 鈥� Racers took to the water for what organizers say is North America鈥檚 largest dragon boat festival in Vancouver.

100 MILE HOUSE, sa国际传媒 鈥� A pedestrian is dead after a bus carrying elementary school students crashed and ran off a highway in British Columbia's central Interior.

RICHMOND, sa国际传媒 鈥� The assistant deputy chief of Richmond Fire-Rescue says no injuries have been reported in relation to a massive fire that engulfed a trestle bridge in Richmond, sa国际传媒, and triggered an air quality warning.

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