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Asks residents to refrain from burning wood and setting off fireworks

A Victoria transportation company says it’s prepared to provide a shuttle for walk-on ferry passengers from Tsawwassen to Bridgeport Station if the labour dispute escalates between unionized workers and the Coast Mountain Bus Company in Vancouver.

Police raids on two residences in Burnaby and Maple Ridge turned up fentanyl, cocaine, cash and a fully operational semi-automatic rifle this week.

Teachers in Richmond, like their colleagues across the province, continue to work under an expired contract as negotiations are on-going on a new one. On Oct. 1, the B.C.

Police Chief puts out small fire with garden hose in North Delta

Metro Vancouver’s board endorsed on Friday a proposed eight-lane immersed-tube tunnel to replace the aging one, but added on nine conditions including potential future light rail.

A North Vancouver man who was making dietary supplements in a grime-covered basement suite, and including a prescription drug in his formulas, has been fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to two charges under the Food and Drug Act.

TransLink has confirmed that 14 SeaBus sailings will be cancelled this afternoon (Nov. 1) due to the transit strike by Unifor, the union representing bus operators and transit maintenance workers.

Students will save up to $5,000 on textbook costs as KPU expands its “ZTC” – “zero textbook cost” - program.

Some people came straight from the streets, others from recovery homes or cramped housing situations. They came together to live at Storeys, in what Turning Point’s executive director Brenda Plant calls a community — not just a building.