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There has been a "major failure" in a well in Merritt, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, prompting the city to ask its residents to stop all non-essential water use.

More daily temperature records have fallen in a heat wave that blankets southern British Columbia, and while cooler weather is on the way for some areas, it will remain hot in the Interior.

The hot, dry conditions increase the potential for wildfire and the new weather pattern expected mid-week will bring high winds and thunderstorms, with dry lightning strikes, the BC Wildfire Service says.

NEW DENVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Mounties in British Columbia's West Kootenay region say four people are dead after a crash that closed a stretch of Highway 6 for 11 hours. Slocan Lake RCMP say it happened south of Nakusp at about 5:50 p.m.

EDMONTON — Above-normal temperatures affecting much of Western sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ are expected to spread into Manitoba later in the week.

HOPE — British Columbia's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has been deployed after a "suspicious death" in Hope.

VANCOUVER — The BC Maritime Employers Association says it has rescinded an industry-wide lockout notice after the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Industrial Relations Board found a looming strike by a union representing ship and dock foremen contravenes the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Labour Cod

VANCOUVER — The BC Maritime Employers Association says it is requesting urgent intervention by the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Industrial Relations Board to divert a looming strike by a union representing ship and dock foremen.

VANCOUVER — As sweltering heat sets in over much of British Columbia, the province's wildfire authority is warning that dry conditions will increase the potential for wildfire activity.

KELOWNA, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — Mounties in Kelowna say they are working to recover the body of a man who drowned in Okanagan Lake early Saturday morning.