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VANCOUVER — British Columbia needs a drenching of rain to alleviate the tinder dry conditions that have forecasters worried about the potential for another difficult wildfire season.

VANCOUVER — Balmy weather across much of British Columbia helped set dozens of new temperature records across the province on Saturday.

ABBOTSFORD, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — British Columbia's integrated homicide investigation team says a man in Abbotsford, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, has been charged with murder in the death of his wife.

SURREY, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — Mounties in Surrey are investigating a weekend stabbing on a city bus that has sent a man to the hospital. They say it happened shortly before 2:40 p.m.

VANCOUVER — The dispatch service that handles most of British Columbia's 911 calls says its lines are again operating as normal after an "unplanned outage" Saturday morning.

ABBOTSFORD, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — Police in Abbotsford say a man has been arrested in the death of a woman after officers responded to a report of an assault at a home in the city Friday night. They say that patrol officers received the call around 10:50 p.m.

VICTORIA — Police in Victoria say they are looking into digital alternatives after another lost notebook resulted in a privacy breach affecting 54 people.

OTTAWA — A British Columbia judge is warning that what he calls a "tsunami" of Indigenous identity fraud cases is coming to Canadian courts.

VANCOUVER — Police say a woman has been murdered at a home on the edge of the University of British Columbia campus, and two people have been arrested.

A 46-year-old man was arrested in connection with the seizure.