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• Update: Surrey police locate missing six-year-old boy

  13-04-2025 17:58 via vancouversun.com
  Update: Surrey police located the boy safe and sound on Sunday morning. Read More
  
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• Mayors of Gibsons and Bowen Island issue ‘urgent’ demands on ferry reliability

  26-04-2025 03:34 via globalnews.ca
  The two communities are both heavily reliant on ferry service out of Horseshoe Bay, and have both dealt with recent outages.
  
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• Fans allege security at a Bush concert in Kelowna were using ‘excessive force’

  26-04-2025 03:27 via globalnews.ca
  Multiple attendees have alleged that security at Prospera Place used excessive force on fans during the show’s opening act.
  
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• Video shows moment roof collapses at Victoria construction site

  26-04-2025 03:25 via globalnews.ca
  WorkSafeBC confirmed it is investigating the incident that happened at approximately 3:30 p.m. on April 11 at the site located in the 600 block of Herald Street.
  
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• Massive gap in Metro Vancouver affordable housing, report finds

  26-04-2025 02:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  The latest housing report from Metro Vancouver underscores the significant gap between current affordable rentals and the number of units required to prevent more people from falling into homelessness, the head of the BC Non-Profit Housing Society said as the district released its data Friday.
  
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• Vancouver fire investigation determines East Hastings blaze may have been ’intentionally set’

  26-04-2025 02:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Police say a fire that burned two businesses in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday may have been intentionally set. Read More
  
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• Fire that destroyed East Vancouver possibly set intentionally: Police

  26-04-2025 01:54 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police say a fire that burned two businesses in East Vancouver on Wednesday may have been intentionally set.
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Eby, Clark, B.C. NDP scramble to 'save the furniture'

  26-04-2025 01:24 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — Premier David Eby wanted one thing more than any other from the day Mark Carney was chosen to lead the federal Liberals in these uncertain times. Read More
  
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• After nine years of 'steady' neglect, Vancouver tenants win legal battle with landlord at West End building

  26-04-2025 01:24 via vancouversun.com
  
  A group of West End tenants has scored a victory in an eight-year legal battle against their landlord, Larco Investments, a real estate company owned by one of Canada's wealthiest families. Read More
  
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• For the 1st time, B.C. judge awards custody of family pet in divorce case

  26-04-2025 01:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  This ruling involved a couple with a young child and a dog who were getting divorced. Under changes to B.C.'s Family Law, pets are no longer considered property.
  
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• Canucks: All quiet on the Rick Tocchet contract front

  26-04-2025 01:21 via theprovince.com
  
  If the main task at hand for the Vancouver Canucks is to do everything you can to keep Quinn Hughes happy, to keep the franchise as his preferred option in his future, then surely it stands to reason that management should do everything it can to keep the current coach — one he likes and connects well with — in the fold. Read More
  
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• Wedding bells ring for B.C. Farming for Love couple in their TV romance success story 

  26-04-2025 00:33 via vancouversun.com
  
  Farming for Love season 1 couple Doug Groenendijk and Meghan Russell are engaged. Read More
  
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• Police release suspect images in Surrey Hindu temple vandalism

  26-04-2025 00:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  The incident happened the same day as a similar act of vandalism at a Vancouver Sikh temple, and police in both cities are working together on the possibility they are connected.
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Conserve 30 per cent of B.C. by 2030

  25-04-2025 23:56 via vancouversun.com
  
  On April 22, 1970, Earth Day kicked off what would become an international movement to protect the environment. Fifty-five years later, the winds of change are blowing in the opposite direction. In Canada, political leaders have stepped back from the environment in an effort to win votes. Read More
  
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• YouTube turns 20: Meet B.C.'s top 'Tubers

  25-04-2025 23:35 via vancouversun.com
  
  YouTube turned 20 this month. To celebrate its two decade anniversary, the company shared a list of 10 B.C.-based creators who are making a global name for themselves in everything from lifestyle and design to tech tips and comedy. Read More
  
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• Police seek witnesses to ‘serious’ stabbing in Surrey’s Holland Park

  25-04-2025 22:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  Paramedics found the victim in the park around 7:30 a.m. with "multiple stab wounds and serious head injuries," police said.
  
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• Vancouver reminds residents lawn watering restrictions begin May 1

  25-04-2025 22:16 via vancouversun.com
  
  Lawn watering restrictions for Metro Vancouver—which limit watering to one day a week for homes and businesses — begin next Thursday. Read More
  
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• Man charged after pedestrian struck and killed in ‘targeted attack’ on Haida Gwaii

  25-04-2025 21:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police allege the suspect struck the pedestrian victim with a vehicle in a "targeted attack" in Skidegate on April 22.
  
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• Man arrested after pedestrian struck and killed in ‘targeted attack’ on Haida Gwaii

  25-04-2025 21:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police allege the suspect struck the pedestrian victim with a vehicle in a "targeted attack" in Skidegate on April 22.
  
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• Federal Election 2025: Why and where B.C.'s political landscape could change

  25-04-2025 21:10 via vancouversun.com
  
  Heading into the federal election campaign, B.C. was painted as an even mix of red, blue and orange, with one lone dot of green. Read More
  
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• Opinion: Missing middle housing — missing again?

  25-04-2025 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  As Canada’s housing crisis deepens, it’s no surprise that every major federal party has made housing a central election issue. Affordability, supply, and livability are urgent challenges that demand national leadership. But a familiar pattern is playing out: bold promises of big builds and federal spending, with scant attention to a quieter but vital piece of the puzzle — small-scale, ground-oriented housing. Read More
  
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• Pace of rent increases slows, but housing costs still rising in Metro Vancouver

  25-04-2025 20:48 via vancouversun.com
  
  The pace of rent increases in Metro Vancouver slowed last year compared with 2023 and the rental stock is growing, but there’s a shortage of units for families, and the waiting list for social housing is getting longer, a new report shows. Read More
  
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• Whitecaps top Messi, Inter Miami 2-0 in first leg of CONCACAF Champions Cup semis

  25-04-2025 20:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  In front of nearly 54,000 jubilant fans, the Vancouver Whitecaps decisively beat Lionel Messi and Inter Miami, moving one step closer to the CONCACAF Champions Cup final.
  
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• This made-in-Canada Montreal brand is for true 'denim nerds'

  25-04-2025 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  If you're looking for made-in-Canada jeans, you might want to check out Naked & Famous Denim. Read More
  
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• Brian Minter: Better Boxwood varieties are much-valued garden plants. Here's why

  25-04-2025 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  In the 1990s, a disease, identified as boxwood blight, began affecting and often destroying boxwood plants in Europe. Read More
  
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• Americans ‘invade’ Nanaimo this weekend after viral TikTok invite

  25-04-2025 18:42 via globalnews.ca
  
  Tod Maffin posted a TikTok video in February inviting Americans to visit for this upcoming weekend and more than 2,000 have said they would come.
  
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• B.C. crime briefs: Man found stabbed in Surrey's Holland Park | RCMP allege man threatened mall staff in Burnaby with bear spray

  25-04-2025 18:26 via vancouversun.com
  
  A man is in hospital after a stabbing at Holland Park Thursday morning in Surrey. Read More
  
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• Americans start arriving in Nanaimo after TikTok invitation for weekend visit

  25-04-2025 18:04 via vancouversun.com
  
  They’re driving up from Texas, flying in from Florida and arriving on seaplanes. Read More
  
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• Why experts say federal election housing platforms are varying degrees of unrealistic

  25-04-2025 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  All three of Canada's main political parties are promising to get a lot of housing built fast over the next four years as people across the country continue to struggle to afford either their rent or mortgage. But experts believe the goals they have set are varying degrees of fantastical, at least in the short-term. Read More
  
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• Threat of trade war looms large for voters in South Surrey-White Rock

  25-04-2025 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  With a sweep of his arm, Tim Shum identifies his top concern ahead of Canada's federal election. Read More
  
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