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Water's Edge: Metro Vancouver's most extravagant oceanfront properties
Does it seem like cranes and dump trucks are constantly on seaside streets, as bigger, newer homes are built on the water? Seventy-nine new homes have been built on the oceanfront in Metro Vancouver...
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Water's Edge: Trainspotting and people watching in South Surrey and White Rock
Surrey’s answer to West Vancouver’s Marine Drive lies up on a bluff, a stretch of extravagant homes on expansive properties tucked away among the natural forest along Crescent Road. Down below, on the...
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Surrey rocked by two more shootings over weekend
A second shooting over the weekend in Surrey has left one man in hospital and residents shaken. The shooting broke out at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of 75th Avenue and Scott Road in...
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Surrey Mounties looking for missing girls aged 10 and 12
Surrey police are asking for public help to locate two young girls, aged 10 and 12, who went missing from the 16100 block of 83rd Ave. The two girls, Arwyn, 12 and Hayley, 10, are cousins and were last...
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5 things: Why some millennials choose to stay
In case you’ve missed the recent wave of blog posts from young people who say house prices have them planning a move to the hinterlands, a new survey confirms that most Metro Vancouver millennials have...
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Real estate: How high can it go?
Realtor Rick Stonehouse recently listed a 1907 heritage home at 640 Union street in Strathcona for $1.649 million. It attracted three offers and sold in a week for $1.85 million — $200,000 over asking....
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Vaughn Palmer: Premier expresses worry over softwood lumber
VICTORIA — After an initial flurry of optimism, Premier Christy Clark is now anxious about Canada’s prospects for a renewed agreement with the United States to manage the softwood lumber trade. “I am...
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White Rock fire leaves condo residents searching for answers
One day after a massive fire gutted a 60-unit White Rock mix-use residential complex Sunday, residents — many evacuated with only the clothes they were wearing — are still in disbelief. On Monday the...
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Ian Mulgrew: Police shooting of unarmed man won't be appealed
The Crown is not appealing the acquittal of an RCMP officer who shot an unarmed Vancouver Island man lying on his stomach after a routine traffic stop. It is another example of how the process of...
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A hill-side story of Shaughnessy speedsters, my coach's cookies, cronies and...
Sunday’s Traffic Authority in Kerrisdale had a fun meeting of the minds before the starting gun went off. The ‘bunny ears’ was a nice touch, too! Play Palace, that’s what parents in one of this city’s...
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West Country Garden Tour: St. Ives to Marazion
Our hotel in Mullion Cove is placed right on the headland overlooking the cove with spectacular panoramic ocean views. We reached it by navigating along extremely narrow, twisting and winding roads...
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Stephen Hume: Man lay dying and undiscovered for three days in assisted...
When Christine Harris thinks about her lost son Lindsey, she thinks of the happy, loving, generous, carefree kid who, she admits, preferred to be outdoors skateboarding rather than doing his homework....
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Man sought in disappearance of Washington couple arrested
SEATTLE – Authorities say one of two brothers who were charged with murder in the presumed killing of a missing Washington state couple has been taken into custody in San Diego. Snohomish County...
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Hells Angels trial is almost done, closing submissions start June 20
We learned in B.C. Supreme Court Monday that none of the Hells Angels or associates charged in the cocaine reverse sting by the RCMP are going to call evidence in their defence. That means that the...
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Psychiatric drugs killing more users than heroin, cocaine, say health experts
Health professionals are sounding the alarm over the heightened risk of death linked to the use of psychiatric drugs, which was highlighted in a pair of Vancouver-based studies published this month....
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Drugs, sex and stolen goods: Population grows on vice-ridden Surrey 'Strip'
There’s a street in Whalley known as “The Strip” that’s a one-stop shop for practically any vice, and trafficking in drugs, sex and stolen goods is the norm. “This block, you’ll find anything. This is...
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Mayors, province consider collecting on density for transit
The B.C. government and Metro Vancouver mayors are investigating the potential of charging developers additional fees around transit stations, saying the move could generate more than $1 billion along...
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Former B.C. government staffer charged in 'quick wins' scandal
Another chapter was opened Tuesday in the drawn-out narrative involving the B.C. Liberal’s controversial plan to court ethnic votes in the lead-up to the 2013 provincial election after a key figure in...
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Mount Polley expect to go into full production, use repaired dam next month
Imperial Metals, despite setbacks in dealing with mine waste while running at reduced capacity at its Mount Polley gold and copper mine, expects to have permits in place to go to full production next...
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City's housing report card 'deceiving': councillor
Report cards in grade school tend to start with accomplishments. On that note, the City of Vancouver’s 2015 self-written report card on housing, presented to councillors Tuesday, was no different....
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