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Working with mental illness

Working with mental illness

Vancouver Mar 31, 2017 / 7:51 am

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

Land of 15,000 potholes

Vancouver Mar 31, 2017 / 6:48 am

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

Bus drivers get shields

Vancouver Mar 30, 2017 / 2:15 pm

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

Drunk driver's mom sorry

Vancouver Mar 30, 2017 / 2:09 pm

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

10 charges laid in oil spill

Vancouver Mar 30, 2017 / 10:09 am

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?

Future of pot tasting?

Vancouver Mar 30, 2017 / 6:35 am

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

Wearable overdose detector

Vancouver Mar 30, 2017 / 6:01 am

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

Mother's ashes stolen

Surrey Mar 29, 2017 / 4:48 pm

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

Slide halts Amtrak service

Vancouver Mar 29, 2017 / 3:09 pm

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

Money back from the gov't

Vancouver Mar 29, 2017 / 1:06 pm

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

Medallist on the mend

Vancouver Mar 29, 2017 / 12:23 pm

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

Deadly drunk faces 12 years

Vancouver Mar 29, 2017 / 11:25 am

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

Mutilated calf in ditch

Vancouver Mar 29, 2017 / 10:07 am

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

Record rain soaks city

Vancouver Mar 29, 2017 / 9:59 am

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

2 head-on crashes, 2 dead

Vancouver Mar 29, 2017 / 7:20 am

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

Hung over? Don't drive

Vancouver Mar 29, 2017 / 6:47 am

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

Two days of hell for teen

Surrey Mar 28, 2017 / 9:46 pm

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

One stabbed, one arrested

Vancouver Mar 28, 2017 / 5:38 pm

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

Cleared in fatal shooting

Burnaby Mar 28, 2017 / 4:31 pm

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

Pattison donates $75M

Vancouver Mar 28, 2017 / 2:53 pm

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...

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