Vancouver News
Working with mental illness
A new treatment may help people with mental health challenges obtain long-term employment. The province and Fraser Health are testing a new and innovative way...
Land of 15,000 potholes
The Lower Mainland's unseasonably harsh winter has left Metro Vancouver roads peppered with potholes. Many municipalities are discovering almost double the...
Bus drivers get shields
Transit drivers in Vancouver will soon be protected by shields. TransLink has announced it will be installing barriers on 208 buses and six trolley buses after...
Drunk driver's mom sorry
The mother of a man who drove drunk and killed three people near Pemberton says her experience of sexual and physical abuse in Canada's residential school...
10 charges laid in oil spill
Charges have been laid against the owners of the MV Marathassa nearly two years after a leak of bunker fuel onto the beaches of English Bay in Vancouver....
Future of pot tasting?
Consumers can trust what varieties of wine taste like regardless of the store they buy it from, and they could soon have similar expectations for strains of...
Wearable overdose detector
A group of students at the University of British Columbia have turned to technology in an effort to address the opioid crisis by creating a wearable device they...
Mother's ashes stolen
A Surrey man is pleading for the return of his mother’s ashes after they were stolen. RCMP say the ashes were stolen between 9 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Friday,...
Slide halts Amtrak service
UPDATE: 3:05 p.m. Track owner BNSF Railway says a slide that has halted Amtrak service between Seattle and Vancouver happened north of White Rock early...
Money back from the gov't
Employers may soon be getting money back from WorkSafeBC. The province has announced it plans to amend the Workers Compensation Act to establish a new policy...
Medallist on the mend
The brother of injured Canadian snowboarding star Mark McMorris says the Olympic medallist is steadily improving in hospital following an accident in B.C.'s...
Deadly drunk faces 12 years
A sentencing hearing is expected to wrap up today for a man who pleaded guilty to driving drunk and killing three people on a British Columbia highway. Crown...
Mutilated calf in ditch
The discovery of a rotting and mutilated calf carcass in a water-filled ditch east of Vancouver is the latest such case to raise concerns for the BC Dairy...
Record rain soaks city
They don't call it the Wet Coast for nothing. Vancouver was soaked by record rainfall Tuesday, causing localized flooding throughout the region. Vancouver...
2 head-on crashes, 2 dead
Separate head-on crashes in British Columbia between cars and tractor-trailers claimed two lives in as many days. A 40-year-old Surrey man was killed early...
Hung over? Don't drive
Driving hung over can be just as dangerous as driving drunk. Research in Europe has found drivers with blood alcohol levels of .05 performed better than those...
Two days of hell for teen
A Surrey man is waiting to be sentenced after pleading guilty to horrific assaults on a teen girl over the span of two days. Paul Schipfel pleaded guilty to a...
One stabbed, one arrested
Police are investigating another act of violence in Vancouver. Const. Jason Doucette said one man has been arrested, and another taken to hospital with stab...
Cleared in fatal shooting
An RCMP officer who fatally shot a man in Burnaby, has been cleared of wrongdoing by the province's police watchdog. The Independent Investigations Office...
Pattison donates $75M
The campaign to build a new hospital in Vancouver got a $75 million boost on Tuesday from billionaire businessman Jim Pattison. The president and CEO of the Jim...