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Avalanche risk in the alpine area of the North Shore mountains is considered high to extreme heading into the weekend.

A man and a woman are facing assault charges after an RCMP officer was injured while trying to make an arrest in Port Alberni. RCMP said the officer responded on Saturday at 8:10 p.m.

After average increases of more than 17 per cent last year, real estate assessments on the Sunshine Coast are showing more moderate rises this year.

On Jan. 1, approximately 100 swimmers registered to take a quick dip in Shoal Channel at Armours Beach for the annual polar bear swim, organized by RCMSAR-14. Swimmers lucked out on the weather – no rain and a balmy 5 C.

Dozens of hardy souls splashed into the ocean at the Polar Bear Swim at Davis Bay Jan. 1, and hundreds more cheered them on from shore.

Environment Canada is predicting weather that could best be described as “bracing” for New Year’s Eve and Jan. 1, 2019. Cloud is expected to start moving in overnight on Dec. 31, with a chance of flurries and low of 1 C.

B.C. Hydro pulled its last emergency crews off Salt Spring Island and other southern Gulf Islands on Sunday after restoring power lost when a windstorm slammed the coast on Dec. 20. Ted Olynyk, spokesman for B.C.

RCMP arrested a Squamish man and seized 1,500 pot plants from a barn in Upper Squamish on Dec. 20, police have announced. The barn had been converted into a cannabis and butane honey oil (BHO) operation.

The estimated cost to replace the community hall at Coopers Green Park in Halfmoon Bay has increased once more, but directors remain committed to move ahead with the project.

The Coast Guard was scrambling Friday to contain a fuel spill in Darrell Bay after last week’s windstorm wreaked havoc on some of the aging vessels moored in the area.