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Cannabis Day 'hijacked' as pot advocates throw punches over event's organization
A turf war over the annual Cannabis Day rally led to fisticuffs before the event outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on Friday. For the past two decades, Cannabis Culture and organizers including David...
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Man convicted of grisly murders in B.C., Manitoba found dead in psychiatric...
SASKATOON — A man convicted of grisly murders in British Columbia and Manitoba has been found dead in a Saskatchewan psychiatric facility. The Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon issued a...
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Independent investigators looking into police-involved shooting in the Okanagan
SUMMERLAND — B.C.’s police watchdog is looking into a shooting involving police in the Okanagan. The Independent Investigation Office says a Summerland RCMP officer tried to pull over a vehicle that...
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Campfires still allowed, but B.C. Wildlife Service reminds public to be vigilant
Campers are still allowed to light a fire for their hotdogs and s’mores, but the B.C. Wildfire Service is reminding the public to be vigilant and prevent human-caused blazes as the summer season heats...
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Vancouver investigates Kitsilano apartment block hosting 17 Airbnb units
The City of Vancouver is investigating the operation of 17 short-term rental units in a Kitsilano apartment block. There are 17 Airbnb listings in the New York Apartments at 2341 York Ave. near...
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What you need to know about the looming Canada Post labour disruption
By the end of this week, a Canada Post labour disruption could affect the delivery of letters, parcels and possibly your newspaper. After more than six months of talks between Canada Post Corp. and the...
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Daphne Bramham: How Vancouver became a speculators' playground
There’s something almost pathetically naive about the City of Vancouver’s plan to tax owners of vacant homes. Forget its most obvious flaws. It would be hideously expensive to administer and police. It...
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Body found in Surrey
Surrey RCMP is investigating after a body was found Sunday in the 9800-block of 130th Street. Mounties say they received a report of a body at around 1:50 p.m. Police are saying little about the...
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Drug trafficker used illicit proceeds to buy Surrey house, government claims
A convicted trafficker facing new drug and firearms charges laundered his illicit profits through the purchase of a Surrey house, the B.C. government alleges in a civil suit. B.C.’s director of civil...
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Revitalization deals floated as way to slow pace of heritage house teardowns
Michael Bruce used to build new homes on the west side as a way to keep busy after retiring. But these days, the Point Grey resident has gone in a completely different direction — to the east side of...
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B.C. Bike Race pits 600 riders against 7 days and 325 km of tough terrain
A decade ago, Olympian and former Canadian national team mountain biker Andreas Hestler sat down at a coffee shop in North Vancouver with Dean Payne to discuss a vague concept of a seven-day mountain...
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Things you need to know about Burns Bog fire
8:48 a.m. update: Delta Mayor Lois Jackson says the Burns Bog fire is a “major emergency,” and the community is under provincial emergency status. She says Metro Vancouver is monitoring air quality as...
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Child rushed to hospital after falling out of window in Surrey
SURREY — Emergency officials say a child fell out of a window in Surrey on Sunday night. BC Ambulance says it responded to a call in the Johnson Heights neighbourhood just before 10 p.m. Two ambulances...
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Fire crews work feverishly to battle wildfire in Delta's Burns Bog
The Burns Bog fire southeast of Vancouver was 10 per cent contained Monday morning, with crews hoping to fully contain the flames by the end of the day. Chief Dan Copeland of the Delta Fire Department...
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Daphne Bramham: Renowned Iranian-Canadian sculptor barred from leaving Tehran
Five years ago, renowned Iranian-Canadian sculptor, scholar and teacher Parviz Tanavoli shared tea and sweets with me in the living room of his West Vancouver home as he talked about how Persian poetry...
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Foreign-buyer real estate data coming soon to B.C., de Jong says
VICTORIA — B.C.’s finance minister says he expects to release new provincial data on foreign buyers in Metro Vancouver’s real estate market as early as next week. Mike de Jong said Monday his...
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Dial-a-doper facing deportation catches break with 90-day jail sentence
A judge has given a break to a Richmond dial-a-doper facing possible deportation back to Afghanistan for his drug-trafficking crimes. In imposing a 90-day intermittent sentence on Aimal Ameeri, B.C....
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Fraser Health earns Trauma Distinction Award
The crash that nearly killed Scott McGillivray happened on a sunny day at the end of May 2009. He was riding his motorcycle through Cloverdale on his way home from work when a truck swerved into his...
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A nose for trouble: Superbug sniffing dog starts work today in Vancouver...
After she survived a near-fatal hospital superbug infection called Clostridium difficile (C. diff.), Teresa Zurberg wanted to do something so others wouldn’t get such serious infections. So she got a...
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New B.C. Transit chairman has deep provincial Liberal party connections
VICTORIA — The new government-appointed chairman of B.C. Transit has deep ties to the B.C. Liberal Party. Victoria lawyer Frank Carson was named chairman Monday by Transportation Minister Todd Stone....
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