Tweet More than 500 frustrated parents, students and teachers packed a Vancouver school gym on Monday evening, delivering pleas to the Vancouver school board to save one of several schools on the chopping block because of a multi-million dollar budget shortfall. The Vancouver school board held its first of 10 public consultations at Windermere Community [...]

Tweet A popular North Shore hiking trail and central Vancouver library branch closed because of flooding Monday as a rainfall warning enveloped Metro Vancouver. Environment Canada issued the dire rain predictions in the early morning, saying upwards of 50 millimetres could drench the area within 24 hours. The news comes as a low pressure system [...]

Tweet Public consultations begin tonight on the proposed closures of several east Vancouver schools, with hundreds of parents and teachers expected to make impassioned pleas to save their schools. Five elementary schools are on the chopping block, including Sir Guy Carleton, Macdonald and Queen Alexandra elementary schools, along with Champlain Heights and McBride annexes. Tonight’s [...]

Tweet Protesters set up a faux-animal experiment lab in downtown Vancouver Sunday to get the public behind their fight to stop animal experimentation at the University of British Columbia. Instead of live animals, nearly naked people, body painted to look like mice, cats, rabbits and monkeys lay on operating tables, crouched in cages and sat [...]

Tweet Two men in their 20s are in hospital with serious injuries after an early-morning stabbing in Vancouver. Shortly after 3:30 a.m. Sunday, police responded to a brawl that broke out in the 700-block of Pacific Street. Vancouver police spokeswoman Const. Jana McGuinness said an argument between a group of men escalated into a fight. [...]

Tweet A 17-year-old American student who fell to his death from a viewing platform at the Capilano Suspension Bridge last June was high on LSD and had previously been caught by a school chaperone in an out-of-bounds area, says a BC Coroners Service report. Coroner Mark Coleman concluded that LSD was a contributing factor in [...]

Tweet Hollywood actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, have been arrested in Vancouver on outstanding warrants from the United States. The couple were whisked into a detention-review hearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board on Friday, past a cluster of about 20 reporters and photographers. Vancouver police say they got a call for assistance [...]

Tweet Vancouver‘s Roundhouse Turntable Plaza turned into Zombieland this afternoon. Hundreds of people dressed as zombies showed up to dance to Michael Jackson’s timeless classic “Thriller,” raising $2,500 for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank along the way. Every year, thousands of people around the world break into a simultaneous dance to the famous song for [...]

Tweet Police are once again warning students to employ the buddy system when walking around the University of B.C. campus late at night after a third groping incident was reported since September. The latest incident happened at around 3 a.m. on Thursday in the lobby of a student residence on campus. A woman was waiting [...]

Tweet Seven people have been arrested in a joint operation by Surrey RCMP and Vancouver police for allegedly using stolen credit cards to buy items online. Surrey RCMP Insp. Wade Lymburner said Thursday that the complex, multi-jurisdictional investigation began after information on the criminal activities was supplied to police. The fraud ring used stolen credit [...]