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Winning the HIV battle

Winning the HIV battle

Vancouver Jul 16, 2015 / 3:35 pm

More than 6,000 international experts on HIV-AIDS will gather in Vancouver this weekend to share the latest scientific advances in the fight to eradicate the...

City worker shot, killed

City worker shot, killed

Vancouver Jul 16, 2015 / 10:31 am

The City of Vancouver confirms a veteran employee is the man fatally shot in a targeted attack in Burnaby. The shooting occurred about noon Wednesday when a...

UBC peeping tom alert

UBC peeping tom alert

Vancouver Jul 15, 2015 / 8:58 am

Women are being warned about a peeping Tom prowling around two dormitories at the University of British Columbia's Point Grey campus in Vancouver. The...

Freeze on freezing fought

Freeze on freezing fought

Vancouver Jul 15, 2015 / 6:16 am

A law prohibiting the sale of a service in British Columbia that preserves human bodies at ultra-low temperatures after clinical death is being challenged in...

Spies knew of bomb

Spies knew of bomb

Vancouver Jul 14, 2015 / 2:56 pm

A Conservative MP says Canada's spy agency knew there was a bomb on the Air India plane that later exploded in midair, killing 329 people. In a late June...

Fatal fall at building site

Fatal fall at building site

Port Coquitlam Jul 14, 2015 / 12:55 pm

A man in his 20s has died after falling four storeys while partying at an apartment construction site in suburban Vancouver. RCMP in Port Coquitlam say the...

Heads roll at TransLink

Heads roll at TransLink

Vancouver Jul 14, 2015 / 12:50 pm

Metro Vancouver's transit authority says two top managers are out and the acting chief executive will be replaced following a failed transit plebiscite....

Dad died to protect family

Dad died to protect family

Surrey Jul 14, 2015 / 12:07 pm

Homicide investigators say a 22-year-old man has been charged with the second-degree murder of a Surrey father and well-known realtor. Khouri Green is due to...

Teachers appeal to top court

Teachers appeal to top court

Vancouver Jul 14, 2015 / 12:02 pm

British Columbia teachers have filed leave to appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada in an ongoing battle with the province over bargaining rights. The B.C....

Blaze a real buzzkill

Blaze a real buzzkill

Surrey Jul 14, 2015 / 6:50 am

Firefighters fought more than flames at house fire in Surrey early Tuesday. The fire at a duplex near King George Boulevard and 108th Avenue disturbed a wasp or...

Lost whale reunited

Lost whale reunited

Vancouver Jul 14, 2015 / 6:06 am

A Vancouver Aquarium orca researcher says a young killer whale has been reunited with its family two years after it was found alone in a remote cove. Fisheries...

Victim was defending home

Victim was defending home

Cloverdale Jul 13, 2015 / 4:02 pm

UPDATE 4 p.m. Police say a man who was shot to death in the Cloverdale area of Surrey was defending his home from an attempted break-in. Sgt. Stephanie Ashton...

Child luring charges laid

Child luring charges laid

Abbotsford Jul 13, 2015 / 11:58 am

A 22-year-old Abbotsford man has been charged with child luring and exposing a child to sexually explicit material. Police in the Fraser Valley say charges...

Fire at Fraser docks

Fire at Fraser docks

Surrey Jul 12, 2015 / 8:50 pm

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is sending a team to the Fraser Surrey Docks after a ship fire put a section of the facility temporarily out of...

Shots fired into business

Shots fired into business

Surrey Jul 12, 2015 / 7:18 am

Shots were fired into a Surrey business overnight. Staff Sgt. Joe Johal of the Surrey RCMP says police were still on this scene early this morning of a business...

Elderly females targeted

Elderly females targeted

North Vancouver Jul 11, 2015 / 4:04 pm

The North Vancouver RCMP are investigating two recent events that appear to be related. Both occurred in the central Lonsdale corridor in the past week. In both...

Crackdown on loud pipes

Crackdown on loud pipes

Vancouver Jul 11, 2015 / 7:03 am

Vancouver Police are cracking down on loud motorcycles. The force is launching an initiative to crack down on noisy vehicles, specifically motorcycles with...

Lions stun Roughriders

Lions stun Roughriders

Vancouver Jul 11, 2015 / 6:00 am

The B.C. Lions' offence woke up just in time. Travis Lulay threw a four-yard touchdown to Manny Arceneaux in overtime Friday as the Lions picked up their...

Teen convicted of 'swatting'

Teen convicted of 'swatting'

Port Coquitlam Jul 9, 2015 / 1:47 pm

A British Columbia teenager has been sentenced to 16 months in jail for online pranks and threats that caused mayhem in communities as far away as Ontario,...

Arsonist still at work

Arsonist still at work

North Vancouver Jul 9, 2015 / 9:13 am

Three more small fires have been set along a popular hiking trail in North Vancouver, where about 10 blazes were sparked on Wednesday morning. The three fires...

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