News — Page 11
Recreational prawn fisher fined $5,000 for traps in glass sponge reef
Xiu Song pleaded guilty to dropping prawn traps into a protected area off West Vancouver in December; judge cited the reefs' ecological...
VPD seizes gun, drugs from boat moored in False Creek
Four people arrested after officers board Night Shadow following reports of gunfire; search reveals handgun, suppressors, and suspected...
Squamish sky runner Kalie McCrystal presumed dead on Matterhorn
The 38-year-old world-class mountaineer and Capilano University instructor disappeared during a reconnaissance attempt on the Swiss Alps...
B.C. government spent over $104K at Fairmont hotels in two years
Canadian Taxpayers Federation criticizes luxury accommodation spending as B.C. faces a $13.8 billion projected deficit, with the...
Charges laid in fatal 2025 hit-and-run that killed six-year-old Surrey girl Jayla Chang
Baldeep Chahal, 38, faces 12 charges including dangerous driving causing death and impaired driving causing death. Three children were...
B.C. Parks adds identity verification to day-use pass bookings starting Tuesday at four popular parks
Golden Ears, Joffre Lakes, Garibaldi and Mount Seymour will require account creation and email verification to combat bot interference...
Vancouver police board ordered to pay $25,000 over racial discrimination in 2020 traffic stop
B.C. Human Rights Tribunal found race was a factor in how officers treated Safiya Elshazly during a December 2020 arrest.
Harbour Air acquires Pacific Coastal Airlines to form Western Canada regional carrier
North America's largest seaplane airline is merging with a B.C. wheeled-aircraft operator to create a 59-plane, 900-employee regional...
B.C. mayors demand five actions from province on crime and public safety
A coalition led by retired London Drugs CEO Clint Mahlman released polling showing residents' escalating fear, with a news conference...
Vancouver election officials sue three candidates over Chinese-character names on ballot
The city's chief election officer filed court applications challenging whether Iona Bonamis, Lenny Zhou, and Christopher Lee can use...
B.C. projects larger deficits over next three years as growth forecast falls
The provincial government forecast a $13.8 billion deficit for 2026-27, up $450 million from earlier projections, citing U.S. tariffs,...
Surrey police warn of high-risk offender moving into the community
Skylar Wayne Pelletier, a 26-year-old with a history of violent and sexual offences toward females, is subject to electronic monitoring...
