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VANCOUVER — BC Hydro says it's working to restore power to around 240,000 customers on the West Coast as high winds batter the province.

SQUAMISH, B.C. — The Sea to Sky Highway linking Vancouver and Whistler, B.C., has been closed in both directions after a mudslide near Lions Bay brought down trees and debris to block the road. The RCMP in Squamish, B.C.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government is expanding financial assistance for those impacted by intense rainfall and flooding that hammered British Columbia's coast in October.

CHILLIWACK, B.C. — Dan Coulter, a former member of British Columbia's legislature and a New Democrat cabinet minister, has died at age 49. The BC New Democratic Party says in a statement that Coulter was a "devoted advocate" for the people of B.C.

Dan Coulter "championed the underdog" as a union leader, school district trustee and MLA.

SURREY, B.C. — Police in Surrey, B.C., say a section of Highway 99 remains closed the day after a nine-vehicle crash that sent six people to hospital.

The report says the city would need to more than double current levels of front-line staffing and related supports

Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation is seeking aboriginal title to about 430,000 hectares of land in the Gold River-Tahsis area, and compensation for forestry operations on its traditional lands

The largest creditor is Beecher Bay (Sc’ianew) First Nation at $8.556 million, followed by Scala Development Consultants Ltd. at $2.374 million

Organizers of this year’s count — which runs over a 24-hour period on Saturday — are hoping to break their own record of 154 different species set in 2004