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After staying out of the housing market for most of last year waiting for home prices to drop, homebuyers appear to be rushing back to lock in low mortgage rates, according to the British Columbia Real Estate Association.

Chris Ash awoke early Sunday morning to the smell of smoke on his quiet Surrey Street. 鈥淚 saw the fire and ran outside,鈥� said Ash, 26. But there was nothing he could to help his next door neighbours on 94A Avenue.

TERRACE 鈥� A weekend double shooting that resulted in the death of a 27-year-old man was drug-related, say RCMP. The victims were known to the shooter, and "all individuals involved are known to police," said RCMP Const.

Taxpayers' true cost for a 91原创 Island passenger rail service agreement is $3 million per year, not $1.8 million, Via Rail says.

Chetwynd RCMP have a man in custody after he fled from police and rammed a police car. Officers saw a grey vehicle speeding on Highway 29 north of Chetwynd on Saturday at 6:16 p.m.

Terrace RCMP have a man in custody after a shooting that left a man dead and a woman injured. RCMP said they were called to the Thornhill area around 1 p.m. Saturday. Upon arrival, police found a man dead and a woman who had been injured.

Alvin Dixon was only 10 when he was torn away from his family in Bella Bella and sent to a residential school in Port Alberni. It didn鈥檛 take long before he got his first thrashing. His sin: Speaking his Heisla language with another student.

Fisheries on Kamloops Lake and the Thompson River are open again as a better-than-expected return of pink salmon swim through rivers and lakes, the DFO鈥檚 area manager said Wednesday. 鈥淲e鈥檝e seen this up and down the coast.

VANCOUVER 鈥� The B.C. Court of Appeal has added two years to the cocaine conspiracy sentence of notorious gangster Jarrod Bacon. Justice Edward Chiasson said Bacon deserved a 14-year term, instead of the 12 years he was handed last year by B.C.

VANCOUVER 鈥� An explosion at a gas station rocked a Surrey neighbourhood Thursday morning, causing windows to shatter on some nearby homes and alarming residents.