Vancouver News‹ Aug 12 to 18, 2018 ›
Bear kills off-leash dog
A woman's dog was killed by a black bear along a well-used North Vancouver trail on Friday. The owner was walking in Lynn Headwaters region park alone with...
AC/DC recording in BC?
AC/DC may be back in black – again. Band members have been spotted outside a Vancouver studio, fuelling speculation the legendary rockers are recording a...
Standoff ends at home
A distraught man has been hospitalized following a police standoff in Port Moody. The man locked himself inside a home on Aspenwood Drive early Friday and...
Outrage over crash sentence
The family of a young woman almost killed when a car ran a red light in Surrey last year is outraged at the driver's sentence. Manjit Singh was handed a...
ICBC - rural favouritism?
Lower Mainland drivers will be hit hardest by ICBC's planned new rate structure. They'll see bigger insurance hikes drivers elsewhere in the province...
Motorcyclist killed
A motorcyclist has died in Surrey. RCMP say the incident happened just before 8 p.m. Thursday night after the motorcycle hit the centre median of Highway 10 in...
Mystery man grabs woman
Surrey RCMP are hoping the public can help identify a man who grabbed a woman in Fraser Heights. Sgt. Chad Greig said on Aug. 13 at 11 p.m., police responded to...
Wanted man went west?
A man wanted in connection with a fatal automotive crash in Toronto is believed to be in Vancouver. A 71-year-old man riding a motorcycle was struck by a black...
Bad guy on the lam
Vancouver police are asking for public’s help to find a man facing a long list of charges. Anduele Jonathan Pikientio, 22, is wanted on several warrants...
Tug lifted from river bottom
A tug that capsized and sank at the mouth of the Fraser River off Vancouver has been pulled from the water and officials say the next step will be determining...
B&E thieves climb scaffold
Thieves are climbing up construction scaffolding to access victims' apartments in North Vancouver. RCMP say two apartments were recently broken into –...
Arrests at Camp Cloud
RCMP arrested protesters Thursday as officers enforced a court injunction to dismantle a protest camp and snuff a sacred fire at a site where the Trans Mountain...
Greens won't run vs Singh
The Green party will not run a candidate against NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in the riding of Burnaby South. Green Leader Elizabeth May says the decision is an...
Truck hits house, baby hurt
A four-month-old child is in hospital with unspecified injuries after a pickup drove into the basement of a Surrey house Wednesday night. RCMP say the truck...
Canuck Jersey still a hit
Canuck fans have voted overwhelmingly in favour of bringing back the "Flying Skate" design to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the club in 2019-2020,...
Serious risk to public safety
Abbotsford Police are warning the public about a dangerous gangster. Even though he's just 19, Varinderpal Singh Gill's presence in the community...
Motorcyclist dies in crash
A motorcyclist has been killed in Vancouver's seventh traffic-related fatality of 2018. Vancouver police say a 54-year-old Burnaby man died at the scene in...
Serious injuries in explosion
A man is seriously injured following an explosion at his home Tuesday evening. At about 7:20 p.m. on Aug. 14, a home-made explosive device detonated in the...
Drowning at Buntzen Lake
Mounties say a man in his forties drowned in Buntzen Lake north of Port Moody on Tuesday. RCMP Staff. Sgt. Tony Porato says the man was in the water about 4...
Measles exposure at YVR
Travellers through Vancouver International Airport in late July and early August may have been exposed to measles. An “infectious individual”...
Tug sinks, beaches shut
UPDATE: 3:40 p.m. The smell of diesel filled the air as crews worked to recover a capsized tugboat that may have spilled as much as 22,000 litres of the fuel in...
More bad news for gangs
Police say 94 charges have been laid, many against suspected gang members, after police smashed a ring that supplied drugs in south Delta and Vancouver. A Delta...
TWU drops sex ban
A Christian university in the Fraser Valley will no longer require students to adhere to a covenant forbidding sex outside of heterosexual marriage. The board...
Fair time at the PNE!
It’s almost time for the Fair at the PNE. The annual fair opens the gates on Saturday at the Pacific National Exhibition grounds in East Vancouver. The...
Politics of drinking
Just in time for the end of summer Angus Reid has released a new poll on drinking preferences and what that could say about your politics. New Ontario Premier...
Mom pleads for answers
A grieving mother is pleading for answers in the senseless road rage death of her son. Carpenter Willis Charles Hunt was shot in East Vancouver Friday, under...
'Gross and embarrassing'
E. coli contamination warnings at Vancouver beaches are becoming an embarrassment. "It's kind of embarrassing that we're not taking care of the...
Showdown looms at camp
A spokeswoman for a pipeline protest camp ignoring an eviction notice from the City of Burnaby says campers have practised tying themselves to its structures in...
Pets on a plane: poll
Planning on taking a trip with your pet in the near future? Turns out that age and gender drive massive differences of opinion about pets on planes, according...
Charges in deadly bus crash
Charges have been laid almost a full year after a deadly tour bus crash in downtown Vancouver. The bus slammed into pedestrians outside Canada Place last...
Pilot most critical
UPDATE: 3:55 p.m. Five people are in hospital, including one in critical condition, after a 1930s era biplane crashed shortly after take off Saturday at the...
Orca's 'tour of grief' over
Researchers say an endangered orca's "tour of grief" is over after she spent nearly three weeks towing her dead calf around the Pacific Ocean. The...
What's needed in OD crisis?
Trey Helten has known almost every one of the 50 or so people he has treated for overdoses on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside since February. As a former...
SUV, semi collide, 2 dead
Two people have died following a collision between an SUV and a semi in Surrey Saturday evening. Just before 5 p.m., the vehicles collided at the intersection...