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City bike thefts cranked up to 10,000, police push registration, recovery...
More than 10,000 bikes have been stolen in Vancouver in the last four-and-a-half years. While police reports are still rolling in, that milestone will have been surpassed in the first week of this...
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Vaughn Palmer: Biography sheds light on what makes Christy Clark tick
VICTORIA — After more than three decades in politics as a rookie organizer, staffer, MLA, cabinet minister, and now premier, Christy Clark says the worst of all times was her first two years as leader...
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Police probe death of man found in Lynn Creek
The body found Sunday in a shallow North Vancouver creek has been identified as that of a 34-year-old man who had been reported missing. North Vancouver RCMP issued an alert May 26 asking for the...
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B.C. floods could be Canada's most costly natural disaster with $32 billion...
Studies that show a major Fraser River or coastal flood could cause damages of up to $30 billion in the Lower Mainland kickstart the next phase of a plan to protect municipalities. That level of damage...
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Great gardens to visit here this summer
Centennial Rose Garden in Coquitlam worth visiting Where can you go for a fun day out with the family to visit a lovely garden? Well, the obvious choices in Vancouver are Stanley Park, Queen Elizabeth...
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Time to stop and smell the roses
The secret to a beautiful, healthy garden is continual maintenance. Which means keeping on top of weeding and deadheading and generally clipping and sweeping and tidying. At this time of year, you...
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$2 million to help kids in foster care and those aging out
An Ontario charity is giving $2 million to help B.C. children with links to foster care or who are aging out of the system, to support their families, boost high school graduation rates and reduce...
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B.C. gives back $25 million previously cut from school budgets
The province has agreed to let B.C. school districts keep $25 million they were required to cut from administration for next year. Education Minister Mike Bernier announced Tuesday that school...
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City of Vancouver taking defiant pot shop owners to court
The City of Vancouver is taking defiant pot shops to court, and the owners are not very happy about it. Injunctions were filed Tuesday against 17 of 55 marijuana dispensaries that ignored orders to...
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Two charged after White Rock drug lab raided
A man and woman now face several drug and firearms charges after anti-gang police raided a White Rock drug lab in early May. Frederic Wilson-Koonpackdee, 46, and Pardeep Grewal, 31, remain in custody...
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Charges laid against couple in White Rock drug lab bust
A man and woman now face several drug and firearms charges after anti-gang police raided a White Rock drug lab in early May. Frederic Wilson-Koonpackdee, 46, and Pardeep Grewal, 31, remain in custody...
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WestJet makes no apologies for excluding hot meals on flights to London
WestJet is making no apologies for not including hot meals for its economy passengers on its recently launched trans-Atlantic flights to London’s Gatwick Airport. Some economy passengers on the direct,...
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Video: No food served on Westjet flights!
Westjet announced they no longer sever food on international flights
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Hockey Night goes viral — in Punjabi
The 2016 Stanley Cup playoffs have been a showcase not just of exciting play, but wonderful play-by-play. In English Canada, we’ve got the country’s finest sports broadcaster in Jim Hughson announcing...
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Hip fans in B.C. feeling tragically ripped off
One seller was asking US$5,499 on Tuesday for a nosebleed seat at the sold-out July 24 concert at Rogers Arena in Vancouver of Canadian icons The Tragically Hip. The ticket is an exception to most...
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Vancouver police looking for victims after series of groping incidents
VANCOUVER — Police are asking victims and witnesses to come forward following a series of gropings in Downtown Vancouver Tuesday evening. Police received a report at about 5 p.m. that a man had...
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Surrey housing advocates aim to put a bug in council's ear
Since Anna Kowalewski moved into her Surrey apartment, she has been besieged by bugs. Ravenous bedbugs left scars on her arms and forced her to throw out all of her furniture, and most recently she and...
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Buzzer celebrates 100 years on the transit network
When a turf war started brewing between jitneys and streetcars in Vancouver 100 years ago, B.C. Electric came up with a novel public relations plan to protect its investment: Publish a transit...
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'Roof surfing' claims life of man in single-vehicle rollover
A 27-year-old man is dead after being tossed from the top of a car in a rollover crash early Wednesday outside Vernon. Vernon Mounties were called to the single-vehicle crash at the end of Tronson...
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Vaughn Palmer: How Gordon Wilson returned home to the Liberal party
VICTORIA — Though Judi Tyabji has known Christy Clark since they were both young B.C. Liberals, more than three decades ago, she had a hard time forgiving her old acquaintance when she first took up...
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