Tweet A bird struck an Alaska Airlines plane en route to Vancouver Monday, forcing the pilot to turn back. Flight 707 from Los Angeles International Airport had just taken off around 9:10 p.m. and when a bird hit the fuselage near the front of the plane, said Alaska Airline spokesperson Bobbie Egan. Not knowing what [...]
Tweet Vancouver’s crime rate fell by more than 7 per cent last year, but sexual assault, fraud and impaired driving were on the rise according to the Vancouver Police Department’s 2009 annual report. The VPD recorded 95 more sexual offences in 2009, an increase of nearly 18 per cent over 2008. “While I would like [...]
Tweet One of the largest ground searches ever conducted in B.C. has been suspended after 12 days of searching failed to find any trace of a missing hiker who set off alone into the rugged mountains north of Vancouver. The RCMP and search and rescue teams had been searching for Tyler Wright, 36, of Vancouver, [...]
Tweet Some lucky beachgoers got a rare and unexpected treat at Vancouver‘s English Bay on Sunday when a grey whale cozied up to the shore. Kate Loktin was at the beach shortly after noon when she spotted the massive sea mammal. “Took a look out and before I know it this huge spout comes out [...]
Tweet Vancouver Police are looking for suspects after a house party turned violent overnight. Staff Sergeant John Grywinksi says three young men received cuts to the face and another was stabbed in the abdomen, when the four crashed the party. The stabbings happened shortly after midnight near 18th Avenue and Nootka Street. The three are [...]
Tweet Hundreds of people gathered in Vancouver Saturday afternoon to protest stoning and lobby for the release of Sakineh Ashtiani, the Iranian woman who was sentenced to death on charges of adultery. Over 100 cities participated in the protest globally, staging stoning demonstrations and signing the petitions. Ashtiani was spared from stoning by a wave [...]
Tweet Pigeon droppings are being blamed for a boil water advisory in White Rock that’s been extended again throughout the weekend. The company operating the suburban Vancouver city’s water system says it found encapsulated yeast associated with bird feces, potentially the source of e.Coli. Epcor drained a tank holding 1.2 million litres of water on [...]
Tweet A 55-year-old Port Moody construction worker is dead, and a crane operator injured, following an accident at a residential construction site in Burnaby Friday afternoon. The crane operator was using a crane truck to deliver lumber, including a larger lumber beam, to a house on Dunlop Avenue near Charles Street around 4:15 p.m. when [...]
Tweet Justin Cronin, Karl Marlantes, Paul Harding, David Mitchell and Paolo Giordano are five stars who’ll appear at the Vancouver International Writers Festival this fall. Cronin wrote The Passage, a 784-page vampire thriller about which Victoria critic Robert J. Wiersema said: “I can’t think of a single person, or type of reader, who won’t like [...]
Tweet A Pacific National Exhibition employee was taken to hospital Thursday night after buying and drinking a bottle of water at the fair poisoned with what is thought to be ammonium chloride. Just after 11 p.m., the PNE employee experienced dizziness and muscle weakness and was taken to hospital 30 minutes after drinking a bottle [...]