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Surrey homicide investigators want help with unsolved murder
Homicide detectives have released a video in hopes someone can help solve a three-year-old murder case in Surrey. On Feb. 20, 2013, Surrey resident Vimal Chand was found dead in the family car near 140...
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The life and violent death of a beloved son ensnared by drugs
VICTORIA — Betty Jansen remembers the horrific phone call she received around midnight on Jan. 14, 2015. “Your son’s been stabbed in the leg and, yeah, he’s not going to make it,” an RCMP officer told...
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Dutch court refuses request for delay from accused in Amanda Todd case
A Dutch court has refused to grant a third delay in the trial of a man accused of making child pornography and online extortion linked to the suicide of British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd. A...
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11 dead, 2 missing after B.C.-owned helicopter crash off Norway
COPENHAGEN – A rescue official says 11 bodies have been found after the crash of a B.C.-owned helicopter on an island off the coast of western Norway. Two people are still missing. Jon Sjursoe, a...
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Being serious about play is no joke for Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Being an effective trickster takes more than irreverence to pull off. To do it well enough so you’re not simply offending people, it means knowing and respecting the tradition you’re working in. The...
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One man in hospital after targeted shooting in Prince George
One man is in hospital after an early-morning shooting in Prince George on Friday. RCMP say at around 12:20 a.m., officers received a report of a shooting in a parking lot near the intersection of...
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City report recommends allowing nightclub at Vancouver's Trump Tower despite...
A city report recommends allowing a nightclub at Vancouver’s new Trump Tower Hotel despite heavy opposition from Coal Harbour residents concerned about the noise. The report endorses the hotel’s...
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North Vancouver's Grouse Grind opens April 30
Spring must be truly here — the Grouse Grind opens for the season on Saturday. The steep 2.9-kilometre trail from the base of Grouse Mountain opens to hikers at 6:15 a.m. “We’re thrilled to kick off...
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First Nation support for Pacific NorthWest LNG growing
Pacific NorthWest LNG, one of the leading liquefied natural gas proposed export projects in British Columbia, is increasingly gaining support from First Nations. The aboriginal support is instrumental...
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Ian Mulgrew: Ministry of Children, Plecas review slammed by Turpel-Lafond
The B.C. Ministry of Children and Family Development and the man promoting its transformation have been again broadsided by the Representative for Children and Youth Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond. In a...
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Vancouver mayor agrees to release his office expenses
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said he will support a motion by opposition Coun. George Affleck calling for the quarterly release of the mayor’s office expenses and use of his discretionary fund. But...
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B.C. police officer accused of drinking on the job launches lawsuit against RCMP
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — An Okanagan police officer is suing the RCMP over accusations that he drank on the job. Const. Milan Ilic has filed a lawsuit alleging his reputation was tainted by the force during an...
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What if your ideal candidate isn't looking for work?
Competition for highly qualified workers has turned the tables on the traditional job-seeking paradigm, forcing companies to market themselves as destination employers to potential candidates. An ad on...
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Vancouver's marijuana shops by the numbers
Vancouver will begin cracking down this weekend on medical marijuana-related businesses that are in unapproved locations, even as the city is still deep in the process of selecting candidates for...
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Archeologists find longhouse remnants on Sechelt property
The Sechelt Indian Band says archeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old longhouse on a residential lot near Porpoise Bay. “This reinforces that our people have been here a long time,” said Sechelt...
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Daphne Bramham: For better and worse, we are a city of constant change
Thirty years later, it’s hard to conceive both how different and yet how much the same Vancouver is from when Expo 86 opened. Far from being what Douglas Coupland describes as the city of glass,...
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Two men stabbed in gang fight in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood
Two men were taken to hospital late Friday night with stab wounds after a gang fight broke out in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood. Vancouver police spokesman Sgt. Randy Fincham says shortly after...
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Yoga instructor tracks stolen goods to Victoria's tent city, has very zen...
VICTORIA — A neatly placed jar of urine was a key clue that led a Victoria yoga instructor to the courthouse tent city after someone broke into his van. Stephen Daniluk’s van was broken into while...
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Douglas Todd: In mobile Metro Vancouver, third-generation locals are hard to...
Gayle Swain often hears how “amazing” it is that not only she, but her parents, were born in the city of Vancouver. Swain’s mother and father were born in East Vancouver during the First World War....
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Found safe: boy, 2, wandered off from B.C. campground on Saturday evening.
A boy who went missing Saturday evening at a provincial campground northeast of Kimberley has been found safe. Mounties and search teams spent the night searching for the two-year-old boy after he...
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