Float plane crash claims man's life
A man has been found dead inside an overturned float plane off Vancouver Island.A Cormorant helicopter and two Coast Guard vessels were dispatched after someone reported the plane at the entry to Bute...
View ArticleCougar sighted in quiet neighbourhood
There's a cougar on the loose in Belcarra.RCMP were called to a home in the 1000-block of Farrer Cove Road overlooking Indian Arm at 8:20 Tuesday night, when a big cat snatched a family dog. When the...
View ArticleBC Place Stadium replaces departed GM
A major management change for BC Place Stadium.Howard Crosley is gone as General Manager. The CEO of money-losing BC Pavilion Corporation has told staff about the departure of BC Place Stadium GM...
View ArticleBREAKING: Vancouver Canucks fire coaching staff
The Vancouver Canucks have parted ways with head coach Alain Vigneault and assistants Newell Brown and Rick Bowness.The team finally confimed the news at 2:30 p.m., hours after it was reported by...
View ArticleEvacuation in Surrey over potential gas leak over
Some homes in the area of 80th Ave and 134th Street were evacuated Wednesday afternoon after a car crashed into a house - hitting the gas meter.Fortis BC was called to the scene.The risk of a gas leak...
View ArticleBC Taxpayer's Federation questions Vancouver City Manager's spending
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is raising questions about expenses filed by Vancouver's City Manager. The Federation's Jordan Bateman wants to know why Penny Ballem spent nearly $700 on an Air...
View ArticleCanucks fans react to the team firing the coach
Canucks fans on the street are not surprised Alain Vigneault was sacked by the the team. But they are also saying he shouldn't be the last member of management given the boot. One fan saying that...
View ArticleThe woman caught on video hurling racist slurs speaks out
The woman seen in a viral video hurling racial slurs and allegedly spitting on and assaulting a protester outside the Cloverdale Rodeo is speaking.Jennifer Johanson told Global BC, it doesn't excuse...
View ArticleSurrey BOT supports coal shipping proposal
The Surrey Board of Trade is throwing it's support to Surrey Fraser Dock's coal export proposal.CEO Anita Huberman says they are satisfied the company will do everything it can to mitigate health and...
View ArticleProfessor says Dix done as leader for next election
A political science Professor at the University of the Fraser Valley says there is very little chance Adrian Dix will lead the NDP into the next election. Hamish Telford says after last week's...
View ArticleVancouver stabbing
Vancouver Police are investigating a nearly-fatal stabbing in the Downtown Eastside.Constable Brian Montague says the victim was attacked shortly before 8:00 p.m."We got a 911 call regarding a man who...
View ArticleDuffy needs to go: BC Senator
A British Columbia Senator is calling on Mike Duffy to do the "honourable" thing and quit the upper chamber.The former broadcaster has resigned from the Conservative caucus for dubious housing...
View ArticlePrison time for a tax cheater
A Surrey man is going to spend up to three and a half years in prison for tax fraud.Mark Andrew Rosie has also been fined more than $142-thousand.In December, he was convicted of 11...
View ArticleUpdate: Bridge on I-5 collapses
It's looks like an over-sized truck may be responsible for the collapse of the Skagit River Bridge near Mt. Vernon, Washington.Authorities have detained a semi and trailer with it's pilot car a short...
View ArticleMounties investigating after homemade trap injures dog
Police in North Vancouver are investigating after a dog was injured by a homemade trap near the Grouse Grind. It happened Thursday along the Powerline Trail. The trap --made of red meat laced with...
View ArticleKinder Morgan puts some of its cards on the table
Kinder Morgan Canada has given the National Energy Board updated plans to expand the 60-year old Trans Mountain pipeline.However the formal application is slated to be filed by the end of the...
View ArticlePolice offer condolences to family of murder victim
Local police are offering condolences to the family of a murder victim in Mexico.... who worked in West Vancouver. Lynn Earl was a district by-law officer before spending three years as a police...
View ArticleAvoiding civic by-elections not as easy as first pitched
A Surrey city councillor turned Liberal MLA says there is no simple solution to avoiding costly civic by-elections despite what Premier Christy Clark said yesterday.Marvin Hunt says there are more...
View ArticleUPDATES: BC Government to change bargaining mandate with teachers to reflect...
A day after the premier told reporters she would take a wait and see approach, leaked letters from the Ministry of Education show a 10 year deal will be the mandate at the table. In a letter to the...
View ArticlePublic hearing to be held into allegations against transit police officer
The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner has ordered a public hearing into allegations of abuse of authority, deceit and discreditable conduct by a transit police officer. It was three years...
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