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1 day ago | 
castanet.net | Chelsea Powrie |Abby Luciano |Stefan Labbe |Brenna Owen
The Canadian Press - | Story: 554719Vancouver police say it's a "miracle" no one was injured after a vehicle crashed into the Pacific Coliseum arena on Thursday evening. Police say a vehicle drove into the front entrance of the building around 8 p.m. while a Cirque du Soleil show was taking place. They say a 30-year-old Vancouver man has been arrested under the Mental Health Act and the crash does not appear to be an act of terrorism.
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2 days ago | 
castanet.net | Chelsea Powrie |Abby Luciano |Stefan Labbe |Brenna Owen
North Vancouver RCMP have arrested a man after a reported stabbing at a local construction site. Local Mounties received reports of an assault at a construction site near West 1st Street and Pemberton Avenue just before noon Thursday. Numerous front-line officers, including West Van police, were on scene and responded to the incident. The victim had minor injuries and was transported to the hospital by paramedics. Police say it is alleged that a man entered the site and assaulted a worker.
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3 days ago | 
castanet.net | Chelsea Powrie |Brenna Owen |Abby Luciano |Nono Shen
Brenna Owen, The Canadian Press - | Story: 554420The British Columbia Wildfire Service is warning that incoming winds are expected to drive an out-of-control wildfire towards the community of Kelly Lake, about 80 kilometres south of Dawson Creek in the province's northeast.
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3 days ago | 
castanet.net | Chelsea Powrie |Darron Kloster |Abby Luciano |Nono Shen
A dead grey whale washed up on Long Beach near Tofino this week is the first discovered fatality of the season in British Columbia waters — and could be part of a troubling trend of spring stranding events along the North American coast as the cetaceans migrate to their northern feeding grounds.
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3 days ago | 
castanet.net | Chelsea Powrie |Abby Luciano |Nono Shen |Chuck Chiang
Abby Luciano, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter / North Shore News - | Story: 554382After the loss of his four-year-old boy in a bus crash in Horseshoe Bay last week, a grieving father has a special request for members of the community. Clineu Machado wrote an update in a GoFundMe this week in the perspective of his son, Leonardo, asking people to bring bus drivers flowers, buy them a coffee or ask for their names and how they’re doing to show kindness and compassion.
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4 days ago | 
castanet.net | Colin Dacre |Brieanna Charlebois |Abby Luciano |Roxanne Egan-Elliott
The stretch of the Alaska Highway near Fort Nelson, B.C., that closed Monday due to a nearby wildfire has reopened to single lane traffic. Drive BC announced the update in a post around 9:30 p.m., saying the status could change quickly depending on wildfire activity. The BC Wildfire Service says the blaze is about 26 square kilometres in size and is burning out of control about 10 kilometres northeast of Summit Lake.
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5 days ago | 
castanet.net | Kirk Penton |Nicholas Johansen |Stefan Labbe |Abby Luciano
Stefan Labbé / Times Colonist - | Story: 553830Climate change has put Western Canada’s glaciers on track for devastating loss over the coming decades, with the southern half of B.C. expected to lose nearly 75 per cent of the alpine ice — even if warming stops today, a new study has found. The planet has so far warmed an average of about 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.
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1 week ago | 
castanet.net | Nicholas Johansen |Abby Luciano |Nick Laba |Adam Campbell
One person has died and another has been seriously injured after a TransLink bus driver struck two pedestrians Wednesday afternoon at the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal in West Vancouver. The West Vancouver Police Department confirmed officers were called to the scene at around 3:30 p.m. Images from the scene show an articulated bus straddling the sidewalk outside the terminal.
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1 week ago | 
prpeak.com | Abby Luciano |Alanna Kelly
One person has died and another has been seriously injured after a TransLink bus driver struck two pedestrians Wednesday afternoon at the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal in West Vancouver. The West Vancouver Police Department confirmed officers were called to the scene at around 3:30 p.m."West Vancouver police are asking the public and the media to stay away from the area as we care for those impacted and begin the investigation into this tragic event," the police said.
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3 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Casey Richardson |Brent Richter |Valerie Leung |Abby Luciano
Kevin Vallely and Ray Zahab had unfinished business in the high Arctic. In 2022, the Royal Canadian Geographic Society explorers sought to cross Ellesmere Island – Canada’s northernmost landmass – unsupported, on skis, in the coldest and harshest time of the year.
