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Law change aims to give mobile home park residents more stability
Mobile home park owners in B.C. will have less power to change park rules following provincial changes to the Manufactured Home Park Tenancy Regulation.
West Vancouver's Blue Bus workers vote 96% in favour of a strike
Blue Bus workers in West Vancouver, B.C., have voted in favour of a strike after ongoing contract negotiations with the district failed.
Vancouver School Board sends phone-restriction motion to committee
Vancouver School Board trustees voted to refer a motion on restricting cellphones in schools to its education plan committee on Monday. In January, the province announced it was taking steps to restrict cellphones in all B.C. schools.
Orca calf swims out of lagoon after being trapped for a month
The Ehattesaht First Nation says a killer whale calf that had been trapped in a remote Vancouver Island lagoon for more than a month is now free after she swam out on her own early Friday morning.
More social housing for Little Mountain site after long delay
The City of Vancouver officially broke ground on a new affordable housing project in the Little Mountain neighbourhood — more than a decade and a half after hundreds of residents in social housing on the site were displaced.
2 bodies recovered in U.S. believed to be missing kayakers: RCMP
The two bodies recovered by U.S authorities in Washington state earlier this week are believed to be the two missing kayakers from B.C., said Sydney/North Saanich RCMP.
Surrey, B.C. council passes budget that includes 7% tax increase
Surrey city council passed its 2024 operating and capital budget Monday night, which includes a seven per cent tax hike for residents.
B.C. bans self-driving vehicles on its roads
Earlier this month, changes to B.C.’s Motor Vehicle Act quietly came into effect, prohibiting the use of fully automated self-driving vehicles.
Petition launched to nix Spanish Banks pay parking plan — again
A plan to charge for parking at Vancouver's Spanish Banks beach has been met with public backlash, including a new petition to scrap the move that has already garnered more than a thousand signatures.
Hearing for B.C. man who killed his 3 children adjourned over outburst, legal issues
A hearing to decide whether a B.C. man who killed his three children can continue to go out in public unescorted ended abruptly and without a decision on Wednesday, after the man shouted at members of the B.C. Review Board and his lawyer quit the case.