Local, Regional News

Metro Vancouver board chair Mike Hurley said on Friday that the regional district will rewrite policies for staff travel as part of Metro's clampdown on external trips for professional development. Read More

In this week's video, Patrick Johnston and Paul Chapman discuss where the Vancouver Canucks really stand with a quarter of their season gone. Read More

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As the new municipal force took over command Friday in Surrey from the RCMP, Mayor Brenda Locke promised to work with the Surrey Police Service to make it the best in Canada. Read More

VICTORIA — The New Democrats must be hoping they’ve heard the last of the Surrey policing controversy with this week’s handover from the RCMP to the city's Surrey Police Service. Read More

Two days before the ship Nordic Malmoe was due in Vancouver, Nathan Smith received an email asking for help. Read More

On Nov. 26, 1919, the Vancouver World newspaper had a small item headlined “Automobile Men Active”. Read More

Re: This student watched his friend die: He's angry Vancouver won't mandate life-saving medical device in school  Read More

On this World AIDS Day 2024 (which we mark for the 37th time on Dec. 1), I am called to reflect on both our great progress over the past generation and what still lies ahead. I am truly concerned. In B.C. in the first half of 2024, there were 130 new diagnoses of HIV infection (five per week), compared to 98 in 2023 and 53 in 2022 over the same interval. This is still far lower than 10 per week experienced at the peak of the epidemic, but it is very worrisome and now appears to be a trend after the pandemic. Read More

Two young children were taken to hospital Friday after an attempt to drive a vehicle in which they were passengers into the Fraser River in Delta. Read More

As shoppers filled malls and retail stores for Black Friday sales, Mayor Jyoti Gondek appealed to Calgarians to support local small businesses. Read More

Look out, world — Priscilla’s got a car now, and she’s raring to go. Read More

Edmonton's mayor has released a plan he says will shave at least two per cent off next year's property tax rate while adding dollars for cleaning the city's core and business areas, cutting the grass, attracting industrial businesses, and keeping the low-income transit pass program afloat. Read More

When you're under the gun, undermanned — as the Vancouver Canucks currently are — and under pressure, it becomes essential that you pull yourself tight and focus on the details. Read More

Another long week on the road for the Vancouver Canucks. Read More

Alberta Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) are investigating the death of a worker at an Edmonton construction site Monday. Read More

Failing to conduct a shoulder check to look through his rear window showed a lack of due care and attention for a Calgary policeman who backed over a jaywalking pedestrian, a judge ruled Friday. Read More

A Calgary man's suitcase had more than just the essentials when he checked in for a flight out of Winnipeg in October. Read More

Vini Buecken attacked her octogenarian mother during an argument that likely began over money, Crown prosecutors claim. Read More

Saskatchewan's cabinet ministers have travelled outside the province less this year than in the previous two years, according to recently released travel expense reports. Read More