City of Vancouver eyes changes to make housing development more viable
For many years, the City of Vancouver’s planning department and successive councils have grappled with a persistent problem: rents and home prices rising too fast and too high. Now, they face the opposite scenario, which presents its own challenges. Recent...
Who is Trevor Halford, B.C.’s interim Conservative leader?
The interim leader of the B.C. Conservative Party, Trevor Halford, is being called a calm and articulate progressive conservative, who is well-liked by his colleagues. That description comes from former MP and Surrey mayor, Dianne Watts. “He really has the ability...
B.C. conservation officers capture four more grizzly bears in Bella Coola
B.C. conservation officers say they have captured four more grizzly bears near Bella Coola. The bears will be tested to determine whether they were involved in an attack on schoolchildren two weeks ago, according to a social. media post from...
2025 Christmas lights list/map: Drive by Metro Vancouver’s brightest displays!
Shine on, you crazy diamond. It’s that time of year again when your drive home gets a bit more colourful, thanks to the hundreds of homes across the Metro Vancouver area that are decked out in sparkling, twinkling lights. The...
Canadian meth kingpin sentenced to 16 years in Australia
A Canadian drug kingpin, who once headed the notorious Sam Gor syndicate, has been sentenced to 16 years in an Australian prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to traffic commercial quantities of methamphetamine from 2012 to 2013. Tse Chi Lop,...
RCMP investigating after several pedestrians hit in Port Coquitlam crash
The RCMP says it is investigating after several pedestrians were hit in a multi-vehicle crash in Port Coquitlam earlier this week. Just after 2 p.m. Tuesday, officers were called to the intersection of Lougheed Highway and Westwood Street after reports...
B.C. judge finds murderer in contempt over ‘inmate code’ refusal to answer questions
A British Columbia judge says a man convicted in the notorious Surrey Six murder case is guilty of contempt of court for refusing to answer questions out of fear of violating the so-called “inmate code” against co-operating with law enforcement....
Police officers will not be charged after fatal shooting of autistic Surrey teen, says IIO
The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) of BC says the police officers involved in the fatal shooting of an autistic teenager in Surrey earlier this year have been cleared of any wrongdoing. Shortly after 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 9, the 15-year-old...
Vancouver’s West Fraser Timber to curtail northern Alberta mill; 190 jobs affected
VANCOUVER — West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. says it plans to indefinitely curtail work at its northern Alberta mill. The move is expected to affect 190 employees, but the Vancouver-based wood products company says it will try to find them...
Abbotsford police launch exit-support program to target roots of extortion-related violence
The Abbotsford Police Department (AbbyPD) says it has launched a new program targeting those involved in planning or carrying out extortion-related violence. Project Disengage is an “intervention and exit program” for people who are currently involved in or are being...
