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Alberta's health ministry says an audit announced last December has determined that more than 40 medical clinics in the province are advertising membership fees for services, nearly a year after one such plan landed a Calgary clinic in hot water.

Residents of Port Renfrew, a small fishing community in southern Vancouver Island, are anxiously awaiting a decision about a federal fishing closure that they say will devastate the area's economy.

Level 3 watering restrictions are in effect in Merritt, B.C., limiting lawn and garden watering to two times per week. Hand watering and washing is allowed any time.