Vancouver News

Reports of a gun prompt major police response in Burnaby

Burnaby Oct 8, 2019 / 5:12 pm

UPDATE: 5:10 p.m. Burnaby RCMP have arrested a 19-year-old man following a gun scare at Simon Fraser University. Just before 2 p.m., multiple police units...

Pumpkin spice Spam fries?

Vancouver Oct 8, 2019 / 4:58 pm

You’ve seen the memes and gifs: Fall means leaves on the ground, scarves around our necks, and pumpkin spice on everything even remotely edible. Each year...

Gabriel Klein in agitated state at hospital two days before attack

Abbotsford Oct 8, 2019 / 1:52 pm

A member of an emergency-room security team told a B.C. Supreme Court trial that the man accused of murdering a high school student showed up at the Abbotsford...

Extinction Rebellion shuts down Vancouver's Burrard Street Bridge

Vancouver Oct 8, 2019 / 6:26 am

Vancouver Police say 10 people were arrested late Monday for obstruction of justice after they refused to leave a bridge linking the city's downtown to the...

Driver arrested after crashing stolen police cruiser in Richmond

Richmond Oct 7, 2019 / 7:20 pm

UPDATE: 7:20 p.m. The RCMP says it's notified British Columbia's police oversight agency about an incident that led to one woman being taken to hospital...

North Vancouver man faces sex assault, child porn charges

Coquitlam Oct 7, 2019 / 3:45 pm

An investigation into alleged sexual offences involving minors has led to charges against a man who operates a North Vancouver music business. RCMP say...

BC-born celeb Pamela Anderson writes to Port Moody council

Port Moody Oct 7, 2019 / 3:21 pm

A celebrity lifeguard is fighting to save a Port Moody park. Pamela Anderson, known for her role as lifeguard C.J. Parker on the 1990s TV show Baywatch, has...

Vancouver's Bus Fuller headed restaurant empire

Vancouver Oct 7, 2019 / 3:05 pm

A co-founder of the Earls restaurant chain has died. The Fuller family shared news Monday that patriarch Leroy Earl Fuller, known as Bus, died peacefully while...

Gabriel Klein enters plea in Abbotsford high school stabbing death

Abbotsford Oct 7, 2019 / 1:23 pm

A man accused of killing a 13-year-old student and wounding another at Abbotsford Secondary School has pleaded not guilty to the crimes. Gabriel Klein is...

Port Moody Mayor Rob Vagramov faces sexual assault charge

Port Moody Oct 7, 2019 / 11:48 am

Port Moody council will vote Tuesday on a motion to ask Mayor Rob Vagramov to resume the leave of absence he took after he was charged with sexual assault in...

Lower speed limit proposed for Ladner Trunk Road

Delta Oct 7, 2019 / 11:41 am

The speed limit on a heavily used Lower Mainland feeder road could be reduced. The City of Delta's public safety committee recently discussed what to do...

Climate protests close bridges in Vancouver, around world

Vancouver Oct 7, 2019 / 10:05 am

Protesters shut down bridges across Canada this morning as part of a global effort to push for more urgent action on climate change. Activists with the...

Art university closed until Wednesday in Vancouver

Vancouver Oct 7, 2019 / 6:46 am

The Vancouver campus of Emily Carr University of Art + Design won't reopen until Wednesday following what police believe was a deliberately set fire. The...

Doctors getting political

Vancouver Oct 7, 2019 / 6:28 am

As a child growing up in Toronto, Dr. Melissa Lem was dubbed a tree hugger thanks to her passion for the environment. It's a label she fully embraces as a...

Property in Surrey searched on suspicion of cock fighting

Surrey Oct 6, 2019 / 4:05 pm

The BC SPCA executed a warrant at a Surrey property it believes was connected to cock fighting on Saturday. "We did not seize any birds, but we did seize...

Vancouver art school closed in wake of small fire

Vancouver Oct 6, 2019 / 12:58 pm

The Emily Carr University campus remains closed today following a small fire Saturday morning. The university says in a statement that it is closed so...

A Burnaby environmentalist is fearing the worst for spawning salmon as water in a creek at the Trans Mountain tank farm has turned muddy with silt.

Burnaby Oct 6, 2019 / 8:10 am

A Burnaby environmentalist is fearing the worst for spawning salmon as water in a creek at the Trans Mountain tank farm has turned muddy with silt. John Preissl...