Tweet Two Vancouver men have been arrested in separate investigations for allegedly possessing child pornography, police say. In each case, the accused man was turned in by a spouse or former spouse, Const. Lindsey Houghton said Wednesday. A 30-year-old Vancouver man was arrested in Vancouver Sept. 22 after his common-law wife allegedly found child pornography [...]

Tweet North Vancouver police have impounded a pair of hot wheels — a BMW and a $400,000 Ferrari — last weekend when officers pulled over two drivers clocked at about 200 km/h. The Vancouver men, 21 and 22, were stopped by North Vancouver RCMP Saturday when officers spotted them racing on a road popular among [...]

Tweet The Montreal-based indie band, who sold out Vancouver‘s Pacific Coliseum Tuesday night, proved why they have the reputation as one of the most important and talented live acts in modern music. Bursting on to stage with “Ready to Start,” the first single from their newly released The Suburbs, frontman Win Butler and his wife, [...]

Tweet With major apparel corporations such as Walmart and Target getting on the sustainability train, there is little doubt that the environmentally conscious fashion movement is on the cusp of becoming mainstream, Eco Fashion Week CEO Myriam Laroche says as she prepares to launch what she bills as Canada’s premier eco-fashion week. “It’s the new [...]

Tweet Six suspects have been arrested in south Vancouver as part of a federal drug investigation that inconvenienced transit users Monday. RCMP Const. Michael McLaughlin confirmed that the large police operation that blocked the Vancouver Transit Centre was part of a federal drug enforcement section investigation. McLaughlin said the six men were all in a [...]

Tweet RBC economist Robert Hogue is raising a “red flag” about housing affordability in Vancouver. The bank’s quarterly report on housing trends and affordability, released Monday, says that Vancouver is one of a handful of Canadian markets where the share of household income taken up by home ownership costs “is at worrisome levels.” Average home [...]

Tweet Two high-risk sex offenders failed to check in to their Vancouver halfway houses on Friday, September 24. The incidents have not been reported as connected in any way. Both men have distinctive tattoos. 1) Darrell Gregory Plessis A convicted sex offender thought to be a high-risk to re-offend failed to return to a Vancouver [...]

Tweet B.C. communities inundated by mudslides and flooding this weekend faced a day of assessment Sunday before cleanup could begin, police said. Heavy rain washed out roads and swamped homes around the northern half of Vancouver Island, forcing two towns to declare temporary states of emergency and another on the mainland to airlift its residents [...]

Tweet TransLink police chief Ward Clapham has been fired over “philosophical” differences with his bosses over his management style. The Transit police board made the decision Thursday to dismiss Clapham, saying they wanted to make a change to the way the 170-member transit force was managed. There was no suggestion of impropriety, board member Bill [...]

Tweet Vancouver Police are investigating a targeted shooting that has killed one man. Const. Lindsey Houghton says the man was gunned down inside a small east Vancouver restaurant at around 8:15 Thursday night. He says detectives are questioning about 12 witnesses but few other details of the attack are available. No one is in custody [...]