Alanna Kelly

2 weeks ago | vancouverisawesome.com | Alanna Kelly

Police officers responded to a serious boat crash near Cates Park on Saturday evening. Witness saw six police cruisers, three ambulances and a police boat respond to the scene around 8:30 p.m. on June 7. A source confirms with North Shore News that it was a fatal boat crash. North Vancouver RCMP said Cates Park boat launch is closed as police conduct their investigation. "We are asking the public to avoid the area,” says a spokesperson.

3 weeks ago | vancouverisawesome.com | Alanna Kelly

Warning: Some details in this story may be disturbing for some readers. A Vancouver man was spending a quiet Sunday morning watching a family of Canada geese from his balcony when tragedy struck. Mychaylo Prystupa, who lives in Olympic Village, said it was around 9 a.m. when he spotted a large group of baby geese waddling across Quebec Street and E 1st Avenue.

3 weeks ago | prpeak.com | Alanna Kelly

The first time she touched a grizzly bear, she was just two months old. From then on, Michelle McLellan has spent her life tracking, studying and researching grizzly bears. "I grew up on a research program in southern B.C. in the Rocky Mountains, where my dad was studied grizzly bears for 40 years,” she said. Her childhood is filled with memories of grizzlies, including the first one she touched. "It was immobilized … my parents weren't that crazy,” McLellan told Lodestar Media.

3 weeks ago | nsnews.com | Alanna Kelly

People were awestruck after witnessing a killer whale swim backwards off West Vancouver. Allison MacGillivary and her boyfriend always keep a close eye on a local Facebook group that reports whale sightings. The local community is a flurry with messages whenever marine mammals pass by Howe Sound. "We’re constantly monitoring the chat, like four times a week," she said. "It’s such a nice little community."On May 25, her parents came to visit her in North Vancouver from Ontario.

3 weeks ago | castanet.net | Colin Dacre |Roxanne Egan-Elliott |Cindy Harnett |Alanna Kelly

A B.C. man who a judge found had “a history of aggressive and violent conduct” has lost his court fight to have his guns returned. Robin Morton Stanbridge’s five firearms were seized by West Shore RCMP on Nov. 9, 2018, based on public-safety concerns, according to a B.C. Supreme Court decision released last week. An officer was at Stanbridge’s home that day to keep the peace during a home visit by a representative of the Ministry of Children and Family Development.