Tweet The body of Growing Pains actor Andrew Koenig, who had been missing since Feb. 14, was found Thursday around noon in a Vancouver park called Stanley Park, police confirmed at an evening news conference. The 41-year-old actor was best known for playing Kirk Cameron’s friend, Richard “Boner” Stabone, on the 1980s ABC sitcom. Koenig [...]

Tweet With a crowd anticipated at perhaps 200,000 roaming the city’s streets, some of them fans of the archrival Americans, officials here ordered downtown beer and liquor stores to close early. They had done the same on Saturday night when the hordes drawn here by the Olympics and the unseasonably warm weather made passage impossible [...]

Tweet Police are asking for the public’s help in locating actor Andrew Koenig, who had a recurring role on the 1980s sitcom “Growing Pains.” Vancouver police say Koenig was visiting friends in West Vancouver when he went missing. He was last seen on Feb. 14.

Tweet Organizers of the Vancouver Games have made it a little easier for visitors to take up-close pictures of the Olympic cauldron. Workers removed a section of chain-link fence around the flame Saturday and replaced it with Plexiglas to allow a clearer view from ground level. Fencing remains on top on the Plexiglas starting about [...]

Tweet The Olympic opening ceremony celebrated Canada’s aboriginals and French speakers, but gave little hint of Vancouver‘s huge, dynamic Asian population. Dismayed civic leaders are pleading for a different story at the closing show. “It was a slap in the face,” Indo-Canadian activist Sukhi Sandhu said Thursday, referring to the opening show’s cultural segment. “You’d [...]

Tweet A 42-year-old Vancouver woman survived a 30-metre fall on Grouse Mountain early Thursday, RCMP officials said. North Vancouver RCMP said the hiker was heading down a trail after watching the sunrise when she fell. She survived the “potentially fatal” fall by landing in a tree, RCMP said. As RCMP, paramedics and search and rescue [...]

Tweet A surging crowd of Olympic partygoers caused a barricade to collapse during a free concert, leaving “approximately” 19 people injured. Nine people were taken to the hospital for further evaluation, Vancouver officials added. The city said all those injured were treated at the scene in the onsite medical facility that includes emergency doctors, nurses [...]

Tweet The Olympic transportation system got off to a rocky start at the Vancouver Games, with officials scrambling to keep spectators moving. But the transit problems – a contentious issue at Olympics past – appeared to be getting smoothed out Monday, the third full day of competition and the first real business day for Vancouverites. [...]

Tweet Police in riot gear confronted more than 200 masked protesters who hurled newspaper boxes through display windows of a popular department store selling Olympic souvenirs. Seven people were arrested after officers carrying clubs and shields quashed the downtown protest on the opening day of competition at the Vancouver Olympics. There were no immediate reports [...]

Tweet The death of Nodar Kumaritashvili of Republic of Georgia, just hours before the opening ceremonies at the Vancouver Games, cast a somber mood over the sliding sports venue in Whistler and throughout the Olympic community. The 21-year-old luger, traveling about 90 mph, flew off the track near the end of a training run, hit [...]