Want to save on your grocery bill? B.C. shoppers need to be savvy as food...
Breadcrumb Trail Links Want to save on your grocery bill? B.C. shoppers need to be savvy as food prices continue to rise Statistics Canada data shows a precipitous rise in food prices over the past five years, with the cost...
Explainer: Canada’s moratorium on North Coast oil tankers was aimed at Alaska
Breadcrumb Trail Links Explainer: Canada’s moratorium on North Coast oil tankers was aimed at Alaska Canada’s moratorium on oil tanker traffic off B.C.’s North Coast, which has existed since the 1970s but was only formalized into law in 2019, has...
Province to cut slot machine revenue for Hastings Racecourse
Breadcrumb Trail Links Province to cut slot machine revenue for Hastings Racecourse Even with continued government investment from casino-generated revenue, the industry is not sustainable due to declining revenues, public participation and attendance, a letter from the province reads. Author...
One man dead in shooting near Surrey’s Guildford mall
One man is dead after a targeted shooting late Friday night not far away from a busy mall in Surrey. Surrey police say shortly before midnight, officers were called out to 105 Avenue between 152nd and 153rd streets, close to...
UPDATE: Surrey police arrest suspect after woman entered NICU, held babies
Police in Surrey have arrested a woman who they allege walked into a Surrey hospital, removed her shirt and held three different infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. The woman, who has not been named by police, is being...
Four bears captured in Bella Coola not involved in attack on school children, say conservation...
B.C. conservation officers say none of the four grizzly bears captured in Bella Coola last week were involved in the recent attack on school children. In an update posted on social media Friday, conservation officers said scientific evidence, which includes...
Vancouver firefighters bending under pressure of city’s overdose crisis
Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services is limiting the number of shifts firefighters take at its Downtown Eastside firehall due to the overwhelming number of overdose calls that hall must attend. According to a recent agency post on social media, on...
SFU shuttle driver fired after calling traffic control worker ‘unbelievably beautiful’
A Simon Fraser University shuttle bus driver has lost a frededom-of-speach appeal in court after he was fired for stopping on the job to tell a construction flagperson she was beautiful. In April 2024, Robert Glen Harrison, who was employed...
Cleanup underway after CPKC train carrying propane tanker cars derails near Cranbrook
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating a weekend train derailment near Cranbrook. Rail carrier CPKC said several cars, including some containing propane, left the tracks on Saturday. The company said repairs to the track were finished early Sunday,...
Fire causes Rogers outage for some Metro Vancouver customers
A Rogers outage left customers in parts of Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey without TV, internet and home phone service on Saturday night. According to an update from the Rogers support page at 11 a.m. Sunday, a fire causing technical issues...
