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Shooting victim identified
UPDATE: 2:15 p.m. IHIT has identified the victim of a fatal shooting in Abbotsford on Friday to be 24-year-old Lovepreet Singh Dhaliwal. In a news release, IHIT...
Arrested after assault
Some tense moments in Richmond Thursday when police were called to a possible hostage situation and a man with a gun. Cpl. Dennis Hwang said shortly before 8...
Fighting ODs with tech
Firefighters in Surrey have turned to technology in the battle against opioid overdoses. The fire department has partnered with Vancouver-based software...
No free pass for fare skipper
Vancouver police say a 53-year-old man who decided to piggyback through a fare gate in plain view of officers ended up travelling straight to jail. Police say...
Hollywood North's a hit
Mayor Gregor Robertson says it's great to hear that Vancouver remains in the top two places in North America for movie makers to live and work. Movie Maker...
Gunfight witness appeal
Vancouver Police are making another appeal for witnesses to come forward in their investigation of a gunfight that claimed the life of the 23-year-old target as...
Body in trunk identified
UPDATE: 11:20 a.m. Vancouver Police confirm the body found in a parked car in East Vancouver, Thursday, was that of missing teen Sachdeep Singh Dhoot. Dhoot was...
Can't use Bitcoin for taxes
A North Vancouver man is out $3,000 after he was tax-scammed. RCMP say the man received a phone call from an alleged employee of Canada Revenue Agency on Jan....
3 hurt in sawmill blaze
Three workers were injured in a sawmill fire in South Vancouver early Friday. Firefighters continue to battle the two-alarm blaze, which is believed to have...
Outburst shocks courtroom
A profanity-laced outburst shocked a Vancouver courtroom on Thursday. Tyler Lagimodiere is accused of stabbing a Vancouver photographer to death in Stanley Park...
Overdose deaths on rise
The city of Vancouver has had 335 overdose deaths last year, compared with 234 the year before. There was a huge jump in response to overdose calls by...
Alleged thief rams cop car
A Lower Mainland man is facing numerous charges after allegedly breaking into a business and ramming a police cruiser in a bid to escape. Richard James Harris...
Website for murdered teen
UPDATE 1:21 p.m. Police are hoping a website with information on a murder victim can help them crack the case. Marissa Shen, 13, was murdered six months ago...
No-whale era at aquarium
The Vancouver Aquarium has announced that it will no longer display whales or dolphins. Aquarium president John Nightingale says in a statement that the...
Ministry of loneliness
The appointment of a minister of loneliness in the United Kingdom to tackle social isolation is an acknowledgment of a problem Canadian experts say needs to be...
Opioid vending closer
The B.C. Centre for Disease Control says a safe opioid vending machine is one step closer to reality. Executive medical director Dr. Mark Tyndall says the CDC...
PR flack 'barely guilty'
A government communications director who pleaded guilty to breach of trust in connection with a plan to win votes from ethnic groups was "an instrument of...
Teen killed in crosswalk
A 15-year-old girl was struck and killed on a Burnaby crosswalk, Wednesday. The teen was hit by a northbound vehicle on Cariboo Road, south of Highway 1,...
OD deaths hit new high
The number of overdose deaths in Vancouver increased by 43 per cent last year compared with 2016. The city says there were 335 overdose deaths last year,...
Pipeline protesters back
Protesters blockaded the Kinder Morgan terminal in Burnaby before sunrise Wednesday. Opponents of the company's controversial TransMountain pipeline...
Cops injured, local arrested
UPDATE: 10:05 a.m. Vancouver police say one officer is recovering from a severely broken leg and a second officer has sprained fingers after subduing an...
Michelle Obama hot ticket
Michelle Obama will be doubling up on her speaking engagements in Vancouver next month after tickets to her first keynote address were quickly snapped up. The...
Slain teen mourned
A Coquitlam high school is mourning the loss of one of its students following the death of 15-year-old Alfred Wong. Wong, an innocent bystander, was riding in...
Trial set in cop killing
The man accused of fatally shooting an Abbotsford police officer will face trial next January. Oscar Ferdinand Arfmann, 65, will be tried in New Westminster....
Ethnic vote plan fallout
A special prosecutor says a former government communications director for the BC Liberals should serve a community sentence of 12 to 23 months after he pleaded...
'Give up your nukes'
If North Korea wants freedom from sanctions and acceptance from the international community, it must end its nuclear weapons program, Canada and some of its...
Thief poses as police
A thief is posing as a police officer in Surrey. RCMP are warning the public to beware people claiming to be police officers who are not wearing a full uniform....
North Korea summit in Van
A gathering of foreign ministers in Vancouver today to discuss the perils posed by North Korea is expected to focus on sanctions, non-proliferation and...
Beer vs herons in park
Opponents of a brew pub planned for Vancouver's iconic Stanley Park say the project will ruin the park's atmosphere and pose a threat to herons nesting...
Teen caught in gunfire dies
UPDATE: 5 p.m. Vancouver Police have been advised by the BC Coroners Service that the 15-year-old injured in Saturday night's shooting in Vancouver has...
Arrest in mall stabbing
Police say a woman stabbed an elderly man after threatening people at a shopping mall food court on Monday in Abbotsford. Officers were called after people...
Charged in 'spambot' attack
A B.C. man has been charged with mischief after a U.S.-based social media platform was allegedly flooded with thousands of spam messages, effectively shutting...
Faith in humanity restored
A woman's faith in humanity has been restored by strangers after her car was looted three times – all while visiting her dying brother in hospital....
'Brazen' Van. shooting
A targeted shooting on a major Vancouver street has left three people injured, including someone police describe as an "innocent" teen. Vancouver...
Arrest in Nanaimo killing
A home invasion in Nanaimo, B.C. which resulted in a death on Sunday in an apparently targeted killing has warranted an arrest. 34-year-old Troy Dax McKinnon...
Pot biz eager for workers
Canadian marijuana companies are on a hiring spree, looking to fill an array of roles as they gear up for the legalization of recreational cannabis later this...
Police vehicle catches fire
A police vehicle caught fire Sunday, after hitting a manhole in Surrey. The fire then spread to a business. At about 7 a.m. on Jan. 14 Surrey RCMP responded to...
3 injured in shooting
A teenage boy and two other people were injured in a shooting on Saturday night. Vancouver Police responded to several shots fired at about 9:15 p.m. near East...
Tries again on terror charges
A British Columbia judge was wrong to throw out findings of guilt against a pair of accused terrorist sympathizers who planted what they thought were...