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A heli-skier has died after being caught in an avalanche near Revelstoke, B.C., with RCMP and the BC Coroners Service investigating the fatal incident.

The death of a 36-year-old Regina man early Monday morning is now considered a homicide, police said. 

Three heli-skiers were killed when they were caught in an avalanche on the Iridium Shoulder ski run on Mount Knauss, north of Terrace.

A warning for Battlefords residents to not consume any unknown beverages or liquid substances was issued because of the safety risk to residents.

More than 18,000 people have died from toxic illicit drugs in British Columbia since a public health emergency was declared on April 14, 2016. 

RCMP in Battlefords say its dealing with multiple sudden deaths in one week that could be tied to a "hazardous" drink circulating in the area.

Jesse VanRootselaar shot dead her mother and 11-year-old half-brother at their home, before killing five pupils, a teacher's aide and then herself on Feb. 10.

A Quebec coroner says Canadian officials turned away a Brazilian woman at border crossings three times in the days before she died of hypothermia near the U.S. border in 2024. 

Police responded to a call on the morning of April 20, where they found a 59-year-old man from Minto dead outside a residence on Park Street.

A coroner’s inquest held this week has ruled Aaliyah Burrell’s manner of death to be undetermined. The 12-year-old was found unconscious in her Florenceville, N.B., home in 2021.

Correctional Services Canada says it is investigating after an inmate died and two others were injured following a fight Tuesday at Saskatchewan Penitentiary.

A convicted killer who escaped custody and murdered a 25-year-old Halifax woman in 1988 has died in a New Brunswick prison, CSC says.

A man is accused of robbing a liquor store and then attempting to kill several police and transit peace officers at the Corona LRT Station in downtown Edmonton.

Pickering is set to vote next month on a secondary housing development plan that could transform the municipality's landscape east of Toronto over the next quarter-century. 

A man convicted of killing his wife in Regina has died in prison weeks after pleading guilty and receiving a life sentence for the 2017 murder.

This came after the province forced the closure of nine other such sites last year that it deemed were too close to schools and daycares.

Correctional Service Canada says the 78-year-old convicted murderer and rapist, known as the "Monster of the Miramichi," died Monday at Edmonton Institution.

On March 3, Prince Albert police went to a residence in the 900 Block of 2nd Street East after receiving a call for a three-year-old boy who wasn't conscious or breathing.

Hypothermia contributed to the deaths of 62 people in 2023, with nine of them considered homeless, and 57 deaths in 2024 with 11 people listed as homeless.

The BC Centre for Disease Control has issued a provincewide drug alert as poisonings rise, warning that medetomidine is increasingly present in the unregulated drug supply.