Metro Vancouver ‘wins’ Paperweight Award for fireplace registry

Breadcrumb Trail Links Metro Vancouver ‘wins’ Paperweight Award for fireplace registry The regional government is a Canadian Federation of Independent Business ‘honouree’ for this fall’s...

Jan 28, 2026 | Local

Basement explosion displaces two in Kitsilano

The Vancouver Fire Rescue Services (VFRS) says that crews responded to a house explosion in Kitsilano Monday evening. The incident occurred shortly before 6 p.m....

Jan 27, 2026 | Local

Opposing groups criticize UBC over handling of ‘protest event’ with OneBC leader Dallas Brodie

After the RCMP “facilitated” a group of people off UBC’s Vancouver campus last week, both the OneBC Party and the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs...

Jan 27, 2026 | Local

B.C. issues environmental assessment certificate for Eskay Creek mine

The British Columbia government has issued an environmental assessment certificate to Eskay Creek Mining Ltd., to restart gold and silver mining at the site of...

Jan 27, 2026 | Local

BCCDC warns of increase in drug poisonings with animal tranquilizer showing up in opioid samples

Drug poisonings have been on the rise as novel substances are being mixed into the province’s unregulated supply, the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)...

Jan 27, 2026 | Local

Carney’s headline-making Davos speech boosts personal brand, but Liberals and Conservatives evenly matched; polling

Canada’s Prime Minister has reached his highest approval rating since becoming leader of the Liberal Party. However, Mark Carney’s 60 per cent approval rating has...

Jan 27, 2026 | Local

No possession arrests without ‘extenuating circumstances’: head of B.C. police group

The president of the BC Association of Chiefs of Police says people will not be arrested for possession of small amounts of drugs after the...

Jan 27, 2026 | Local

‘Troubled’ counsel for OPCC resigns from Myles Gray hearing over obscenity

A long-awaited public hearing into the police-involved death of Myles Gray that finally got underway in Vancouver last week is in peril of major delays...

Jan 27, 2026 | Local

Police make arrest in connection with stabbing in Vancouver’s first homicide of the year

Police say they have made an arrest in connection with the city’s first homicide of the year. Related: VPD investigate city’s first homicide of 2026...

Jan 27, 2026 | Local