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Black Lives Matter Vancouver wants police float out of Pride parade
Black Lives Matter Vancouver is asking police to voluntarily withdraw their float from the upcoming Pride Parade, as a “show of solidarity and understanding” that officer involvement in the march...
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Canadian journalist stranded in Vancouver by attempted coup in Turkey
B.C. residents hoping to fly to Turkey are on standby as Air Canada has cancelled flights to the country following the attempted military coup on Friday. Natalie Carney Gercik, an international news...
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Suspect in Coquitlam woman's death found dead in Buntzen Lake
The body of a suspect in an apparent murder in Coquitlam was pulled from Buntzen Lake on Saturday morning. Just before 5 p.m. Friday, Coquitlam RCMP responded to a 911 call at a residence in the...
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B.C. students in Nice cut trip short after terror attack
A group of Vancouver Island students will be cutting their trip to Europe short and returning to Canada after Thursday’s deadly attack in Nice. Dale Burgos, a spokesman for the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school...
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Health warning after Surrey hit with 20 drug overdoses in 24 hours
Officials in Surrey are warning people about potent illicit drugs after a jump in overdoses. The Fraser Health Authority says there were 20 reported overdoses in Surrey in less than 24 hours on Friday...
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B.C. has link to infamous D.B. Cooper hijacking
A handwritten letter signed “D.B. Cooper” and mailed to a Vancouver newspaper in 1971 was one of 95 pieces of evidence in a cold-case investigation that’s the subject of a new documentary on the...
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Four generations of B.C's largest carnival family
By late May, as the dust settles at the Cloverdale Rodeo, B.C.’s largest carnival family packs up some 200 trucks with a summer’s worth of thrills and heads east. The itch to hit the road is a trait...
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Terroir trouble: B.C. vineyards harm soil quality, UBC study says
Rising above the waving bunch grass that grows thick on Naramata Bench, 100 young grapevines spread their roots in ancient, previously uncultivated soil. The small corner of Coolshanagh Vineyard was...
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Critics fear moving dates of PNE would disrupt carnival circuit
If the Pacific National Exhibition moves ahead with an idea to change the dates of its annual fair in two years, it would run this month instead of the last two weeks in August. Canada’s third...
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Meggs calls Vancouver's 5,000 Airbnb-style rental properties 'worrisome'
A release Sunday from the City of Vancouver included early findings from a review of short-term accommodation rental services. As part of the city’s ongoing effort to regulate short-term home rentals,...
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Prachnau's forte is winning in Fort Langley; Eastside 10K shows off sweet...
After putting on their new shirts, this fun group took a few pre-race photos to mark the occasion. FORT LANGLEY — Ryan Prachnau, a humble Abbotsford athlete who lets his legs and young children do most...
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Detained Iranian-Canadian sculptor Parviz Tanavoli returns to Vancouver
Two weeks after Iranian officials inexplicably confiscated his passport, renowned sculptor Parviz Tanavoli is finally on a plane and heading home to Vancouver. The 79-year-old, who holds dual...
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Vancouver pot shop appeals delay over zoning and development permits
Routine permitting issues before the City of Vancouver’s board of variance are being delayed in part because of the large number of appeals by Vancouver pot shops determined to stay open. Chairman...
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Pamela Anderson joins anti-fish farm fight in B.C.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is teaming up with high-profile Canadian environmentalists and scientists to investigate the impact of salmon farms on the B.C. coast. Actor-turned-activist...
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World’s largest PEZ-dispenser sculpture takes shape in Richmond
When Aberdeen Centre set out to build an enormous statue entirely out of PEZ dispensers, it set its sights high. How high? Well, its re-creation of London’s iconic Big Ben clock tower made out of those...
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Beaverbrook exhibition is who's who of British and Canadian masters
There are 75 paintings in the Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery show at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler. The roster of painters in the exhibition reads like a who’s who of British and...
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New Audain exhibition features long-lost portrait of founder's mother
A giant Salvador Dali painting of the patron saint of Spain soaring through the sky on a white horse is the showpiece of a new exhibition at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler. The four-metre tall...
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Surrey health officials warn public after 36 drug overdoses in one weekend
Health-care workers and the RCMP on Sunday canvassed Surrey’s Whalley area warning people of a disturbing new trend in which crack cocaine is being laced with the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl. With...
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Emergency crews fighting North Vancouver apartment fire
VANCOUVER — Firefighters are battling a fire burning at an apartment building in North Vancouver, B.C. Media reports say at least two people have been taken to hospital for smoke inhalation. The fire...
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Video: Pamela Anderson speaks out against Salmon Farming
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has teamed with renowned Canadian biologist Alexandra Morton and actor/activist Pamela Anderson for Operation Virus Hunter, a new campaign investigating the lawfulness...
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