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VICTORIA — Members of the Heiltsuk Nation on British Columbia's central coast are celebrating the first steps in the repatriation process for an elaborately carved chief's seat.

VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, say a three-year investigation has led to the arrests of six people allegedly connected to a "sophisticated" organized crime group.

RICHMOND, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — A union representing 320 production workers, machinists and maintenance personnel for a boating manufacturing company in Richmond, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, say it has averted a work stoppage.

KEREMEOS, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Police in British Columbia say four people are dead after a highway collision in the southern Interior, part of a spate of multiple-fatality crashes in the province in the past week.

Latest plan comes amid years of declines for the northern spotted owl — a species now considered sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s most endangered bird.

PORT ALICE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Earthquakes sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ says a 6.4 magnitude quake in the Pacific was "lightly felt" on Vancouver Island Thursday morning. The agency says the powerful quake at 8:08 a.m.

VANCOUVER — First Nations along British Columbia's coast have announced with the Canadian government the designation of the country's largest marine protected area.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's Opposition BC United is losing another elected member just ahead of the province's fall election.

A new wildfire in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s central region has triggered an evacuation order for the northeast corner of the District of Wells.

The number of active wildfires in British Columbia has jumped by more than three dozen to about 140 amid a heat wave, which is creating prime conditions for fire.