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Good afternoon, these are your top stories for Wednesday, September 03, 2025.
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Ksi Lisims LNG project in northwest B.C. survives judicial challenge

September 3 , 2025 at 10:58:27 a.m. PDT • :

A group of hereditary chiefs in northwest B.C. has failed in a legal bid to challenge the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal project just north of Prince Rupert.

Phone services, including 911 landline, down in northern Vancouver Island

September 3 , 2025 at 10:52:00 a.m. PDT • :

Residents in parts of northern Vancouver Island are without landline and cellphone service due to what telecom provider Telus says was damage to infrastructure caused by vandalism.

Train cars leave the tracks in B.C.'s Kootenay region near Alberta boundary

September 3 , 2025 at 10:32:07 a.m. PDT • :

Federal investigators are looking into a train derailment in British Columbia's Kootenay region, near the Alberta boundary.

'Queen of Canada' arrested on livestream after RCMP deploy to village where cult has lived for 2 years

September 3 , 2025 at 09:41:07 a.m. PDT • :

For the past two years a former school in the Richmound, Sask., has been the home of Romana Didulo and her followers.

1 dead, 2 missing after hikers go over waterfall in the Kootenays: RCMP

September 2 , 2025 at 05:02:03 p.m. PDT • :

One woman is dead and two people are missing after three hikers went over the Meachen Creek Falls in the Kootenays on Sept. 1, according to the RCMP.

September 3 , 2025 at 10:18:02 a.m. PDT • :

Man pleads not guilty in stabbing death of young Prince George mother of 2

September 2 , 2025 at 07:29:45 p.m. PDT • :

Why Vancouver's biggest fair saw its lowest non-pandemic attendance in 2025

September 2 , 2025 at 11:18:14 a.m. PDT • :

More heat and smoke in the forecast for B.C. as temperature records tumble

August 31 , 2025 at 07:03:44 p.m. PDT • :

#TheMoment a couple's phone number became a barbecue hotline

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September 3 , 2025 at 06:48:19 a.m. PDT • :

Poilievre calls for temporary foreign worker program to be scrapped

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