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Frustrated West Vancouver bus drivers say they’re ready to escalate job action in their fight for better pay and working conditions. The president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 134 says the union is prepared to give strike notice next week as his members working for Blue Bus seek pay and …

An Alaska cruise ship stranded in Vancouver overnight due to a tugboat workers strike has departed. Celebrity Cruises says the Celebrity Eclipse, which had been due to depart Sunday afternoon, was unable to leave the Port of Vancouver without the tugs, but staff are “working diligently” with local authorities to …

Warning: This story contains graphic details. In the sunny boardroom of a North Vancouver law firm, Dennis Cooper flips through faded photos from his childhood — two class portraits taken in 1977 at Upper Lynn elementary school, and various shots of him at 11-years old, mastering ski jumps in Penticton and Vernon. The photos from …

The man who died Monday morning after being shot multiple times with a bean bag gun by Vancouver police has been identified by family members as 42-year-old father of seven, Chris Amyotte of Winnipeg. Amyotte’s cousin Samantha Wilson told CBC that he was in Vancouver visiting family, including two of his children. …

Vancouver-based Carter Fox usually cycles to work in Burnaby, taking the Central Valley Greenway — a major 24-kilometre bike corridor that connects Vancouver, Burnaby and New Westminster. But for the past month, Fox has avoided the greenway after the City of Vancouver closed off a section adjacent to the site where a rooftop parking deck collapsed …

Vancouver real estate marketer and art collector Bob Rennie will be vacating his office in the oldest building in Chinatown to make way for a new Chinese Canadian museum.  The Chinese Canadian Museum, scheduled to open next summer, will be located in the Wing Sang Building on 51 East Pender St. — currently home to …

When Umar and Atefah Khan moved to Calgary from Toronto in May, they created the Tiktok account @toronto2calgary to document their journey. It all started when they began posting about their three-day cross-country road trip to update friends and family back home. The Khans say they didn’t know where their …

A team of scientists out of the University of British Columbia has outfitted a mobile lab that can detect air pollutants on the go. The scientists say because the van can collect data as often as every second it’s on the move, it will show a more detailed picture of …

More than a year after a controversial proposal to expand the Vancouver Drydock, many North Vancouver residents say they’re frustrated over a lack of communication, and worried about the expansion’s potential impact on their community.  Vessels, from tug boats to large freighters, are serviced and repaired at the Vancouver Drydock, one of …

When Karen Wai King Lew told a B.C. judge that her mortgage debt had been completely forgiven, she invoked a two-decade-old conspiracy theory about a “new world order” that has recently resurfaced. According to a recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling, Lew appealed a foreclosure order on her Vancouver home on …