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B.C.’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner says it's planning to release the results of an inquiry into police use of force in the province later this year, but it's still crunching numbers in the meantime.

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VICTORIA — Elections BC says it hasn't asked the RCMP to investigate a complaint from the B.C. Conservatives about alleged "voting irregularities" in the October provincial election, despite a call from the party for police to get involved.

VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver are looking for witnesses after a man was injured in a fire outside a SkyTrain station in the city. They say the 40-year-old man was found by a driver around 2 a.m.

A British Columbia doctor who treated a 13-year-old avian flu patient says the case has made him concerned about the potential for more human H5N1 infections.

FERNIE, B.C. — A skier has died after falling into what police say was a snow sinkhole at the Fernie Alpine Resort in British Columbia's East Kootenay region.

VANCOUVER — New data shared by British Columbia's Centre for Disease Control shows the province has one of the worst flu rates in Canada, as a holiday-season spike in respiratory illnesses continues.

VICTORIA — Medical masks are again required in British Columbia health-care facilities as provincial authorities say cases of respiratory illness are rising. A statement from B.C.

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — Police say two bodies were found inside a vehicle that had allegedly been set on fire in a regional park in Abbotsford, B.C. They say officers and firefighters responded to a burning Mitsubishi Outlander on Jan.

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — Police have confirmed that the threat of an explosive device was the reason for the evacuation of a large area around the New Westminster, B.C., courthouse, including nearby Douglas College.