Tweet Are you ready for Italian stone pizza and southern barbecue, borscht and burritos, steamed pork buns and donairs, all served up hot and fresh from a colourful curbside cart or a fancy catering truck in a parking lot? Vancouver Coun. Heather Deal is, but it turns out she — and we — may have [...]

Tweet Smoking will be banned at all Vancouver parks and beaches beginning Saturday, after the park board raised the fire hazard rating to extreme. Smoking will be forbidden in all parks and on city trails, as will charcoal and wood-burning barbecues. Only propane barbecues more than 76 centimetres off the ground will be allowed in [...]

Tweet From a baby in a stroller to hard-core Apple fans, hundreds of people lined up outside the downtown Vancouver Apple store on Friday morning to be among the first to buy the iPhone 4 in Canada. “I’ve been waiting three years for this to come out. I’m pumped,” said new mom Shauna Brigden, who [...]

Tweet Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to celebrate in the West End’s streets for what police call “the busiest weekend of the summer.” With Saturday night’s fireworks grand finale and Vancouver‘s Pride festival on in full force, hoards of excited revellers are expected to flock to the neighbourhood to join the festivities. “You [...]

Tweet B.C.’s forest fire concerns hit home for several Metro Vancouver residents on Thursday when an urban wildfire broke out at the foot of Burnaby Mountain, prompting the evacuation of nearby homes. The fire was discovered after residents reported seeing smoke near Production Way and Forest Grove Drive at around 5 p.m. Authorities say the [...]

Tweet Another bike lane could be under construction in the downtown core as early as this fall. The City of Vancouver is launching a public consultation process on a proposal to construct a separated bike lane on Hornby Street, a route on which cyclists would be separated from all other traffic by a physical barrier. [...]

Tweet A 36-year-old Burnaby man who thought he was chatting online with a 13-year-old girl has been arrested and charged with child luring, Vancouver police said Wednesday. The young girl he thought he was communicating with was, in fact, a Vice Unit investigator with the Vancouver Police Department, the VPD said. The investigation began in [...]

Tweet Greenpeace activists occupied pipeline giant Enbridge’s downtown Vancouver office Wednesday, demanding the company withdraw its proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline project. The demand came two days after an Enbridge pipeline burst in Michigan, causing a massive oil spill and triggering a state of emergency — and about two months after the BP oil disaster in [...]

Tweet Vancouver‘s bike-friendly Mayor Gregor Robertson was caught red-handed last week when he cycled through a stoplight and was almost hit by a bus. The mayor was in the new Dunsmuir Street bike lane on July 22 when he blew through a red light to make a right turn onto Richards Street without stopping or [...]

Tweet The average price of gasoline has risen to its highest level in more than two months, according to data released Tuesday. A weekly survey by energy consultancy group MJ Ervin & Associates put the average rate for regular gas at $1.043 a litre, up 1.4 cents from a week earlier. That’s the highest reading [...]