Tweet Police will today announce an arrest in a sex assault that took place on March 23 at 5 p.m. along the seawall south of the 700 block of Pacific Boulevard. Today’s press conference by Vancouver police follows the release earlier this week of photos from a closed circuit surveillance camera of “a person of [...]

Tweet A number of Lower Mainland residents have gone to hospitals with measles virus symptoms in the past month, public health officials said Tuesday. “Several have been hospitalized and more assessed in emergency rooms or by their primary-care physician,” said public health official Dr. Monika Naus, without being specific about the number and location of [...]

Tweet A WestJet Boeing 787 bound for Hawaii blew both right-hand tires during its departure from Vancouver International Airport Monday. Flight 1862 was preparing for takeoff when the flight crew applied the brakes and the tires blew, a WestJet representative told CTV News. Usually a flight crew rejects a takeoff before 80 knots, but this [...]

Tweet UFC’s Dana White has confirmed that Vancouver’s UFC 115, which was slated for the summer, cannot be held here because of insurance and liability red tape, as well as stalls in negotiations with Vancouver city council. For their part, Vancouver is blaming the provincial and federal governments. The fact that Canada cannot seem to [...]

Tweet Vancouver will be home to a new multi million dollar entertainment complex that will incorporate 110,000 square feet of casino floor space. This was according to Premier Gordon Campbell who made the announcement on Friday. Campbell said that the casino will be built beside BC Place and will feature 24 hour gambling options. Paragon [...]

Tweet A specialized Vancouver facility for 16 of the most disruptive elementary students in the school district has seen a dramatic spike in the use of its seclusion room to control children acting out violently. Staff placed students in a segregation or “calm-down” room at Alderwood Family Development Centre 64 times in 2008, compared to [...]

Tweet The Vancouver International Auto Show opens to the public on Tuesday, March 30 and runs to Sunday, April 4 at BC Place Stadium. The show gives the public the opportunity to see, smell and touch 400 vehicles from leading auto manufacturers. Additional special features include a Motorcycle Expo, the aftermarket product marketplace Tuner Alley, [...]

Tweet Vancouver‘s The Cannery restaurant is closing its doors Saturday night after nearly 40 years of service. The seafood restaurant’s lease is up, and landlord Port Metro Vancouver says it won’t be renewed due to security concerns stemming from The Cannery’s waterfront location. “It’s kind of a hard pill to swallow,” general manager Darren Barker [...]

Tweet Attending the 90th Vancouver International Auto Show next week is really quite easy. You can drive right to BC Place and park nearby. You can use public transit since the SkyTrain stops right at the show — or you could take the train or a horse and buggy as our forefathers did when the [...]

Tweet A Vancouver woman is being credited with saving the life of an elderly man who was attacked with a sledgehammer near Main and Hastings streets Tuesday afternoon. Vancouver police said the “heroic” 46-year-old intervened when she saw the victim being beaten beside his car in an alley behind the 400-block of Main. “With the [...]