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Othello Tunnels closed after presumed drowning near Hope, B.C.

Access to the Othello Tunnels in Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park near Hope, B.C., has been closed as emergency responders work to recover the body of a man believed to have drowned. 

Search for B.C.'s Best Symbol: Animal Semifinals

If you were to have asked settler British Columbians what their favourite symbol of this area was 100 years ago, few would have said orcas. But that changed dramatically in the 1960s and the whales are now a top contender for B.C.'s Best Symbol.

Man punches cougar in face, deters attack near Smithers, B.C.

A British Columbia man suffered minor injuries after fending off a cougar attack by punching the animal in the face in the province's northern Interior.
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Left in a paper bag at birth, I've spent years looking for my birth mom to say: thank you

Sherwin Moscovitch knew he was adopted from a young age. But when he was 35, he was flipping through old newspapers when he learned he'd been abandoned in a paper bag and left in a doctor's car. It set him off on a decades-long search to find his birth mother.

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