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3 days ago | 
vancouver.citynews.ca | Mike Lloyd |Charlie Carey
There are even more reasons to watch your speed and not to touch your phone if you're behind the wheel on Tuesday. The Surrey Police Service, Delta Police, Metro Vancouver Transit Police, and ICBC are partnering on a one-day crackdown on speeding and distracted driving. SPS Staff Sgt. Lindsay Houghton tells 1130 NewsRadio that 'Project Swoop' is well-advertised with extra signs, volunteers, and speed indicators.
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3 weeks ago | 
vancouver.citynews.ca | Mike Lloyd |Charlie Carey
The family of an autistic boy in Nanaimo is looking for a path to get their son back into his school, claiming they are being given few options and even fewer answers. Andrea MacDonald says her eight-year-old son Luca has been medically excluded from his program for more than 60 days. "We have no idea how to get him back, despite the multiple emails and meetings, and appeals of asking, what is the clear pathway to get him back to school? And no one can tell us," she told 1130 NewsRadio.
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4 weeks ago | 
vancouver.citynews.ca | Charlie Carey |Mike Lloyd
If you're heading from Metro Vancouver to southern Vancouver Island before the Easter long weekend, here's hoping you have a BC Ferries reservation. The first sailing from Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay available for those without a reservation is well into the morning, after the first three sailings of the day sold out. According to the BC Ferries website, there's not a lot of available space heading into the afternoon sailings either.
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1 month ago | 
vancouver.citynews.ca | Mike Lloyd |Sonia Aslam
Residents of a New Westminster tower damaged during a major water main break in February are organizing for a potential class action lawsuit. One of the potential claimants insists he's getting no answers from the city or Metro Vancouver as he tries to recover the costs of having to move out of his suite for much of the past two months.
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2 months ago | 
vancouver.citynews.ca | Dean Recksiedler |Mike Lloyd
Retail crime and violence are the focus of a private forum being hosted Thursday by the Vancouver Police Department. The VPD is bringing together experts and stakeholders to look for solutions to problems that have been plaguing businesses in the city. Loss and risk management experts from London Drugs and the Retail Council of Canada will be joined by the Identity Theft and Anti-Fencing Unit.
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2 months ago | 
vancouver.citynews.ca | Kier Junos |Mike Lloyd
It is a message for drivers everywhere - slow down and pay attention to your surroundings. Some neighbours are speaking out after a three-year-old child was hit and killed by a vehicle Wednesday morning in Chilliwack. It happened around 10 a.m. on Vedder Road at Petewawa Road, close to a park and daycare. Elizabeth Wilde lives nearby and says she saw the emergency vehicles rush by. "We have a group text in the complex, and all the moms were saying someone got hit.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
vancouver.citynews.ca | Mike Lloyd |Charlie Carey
A man was killed on Tuesday night after they were struck by a commercial vehicle in New Westminster. The New Westminster Police Department tells 1130 NewsRadio that around 7 p.m. the pedestrian was hit at McBride Boulevard and 8 Avenue. When officers arrived, they found the victim unresponsive. "With the assistance of the BC Coroners Service and New Westminster Fire and Rescue Services, the male was removed from underneath the vehicle," Sgt. Andrew Leaver said Wednesday.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
vancouver.citynews.ca | Charlie Carey |Mike Lloyd
After a weekend of multiple snowstorms, bands of snow continue to fall right across the Lower Mainland Monday morning. If you're driving around more western parts of the Lower Mainland, most of the major roads are pretty much clear Monday, but as you head east into the Fraser Valley, it is a very different story. There are parts of snow-covered spots on Highway 1 in parts of Langley, Abbotsford, and Chilliwack, with multiple vehicles in the ditches.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
vancouver.citynews.ca | Mike Lloyd |Charlie Carey
Down Syndrome BC is demanding the premier take action against an agency involved in ongoing failures in caring for developmentally disabled people. The advocacy group, headed by Tamara Taggart, is urging that Premier David Eby remove the board of the Crown corporation Community Living British Columbia (CLBC) so that a comprehensive review and "complete reset" can take place.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
vancouver.citynews.ca | Mike Lloyd
Temperatures are set to drop this weekend across Metro Vancouver, though it will probably be more of a brisk chill than a deep freeze. "Colder air is pushing out to the coast, but it's only going to be three or four degrees colder than normal," said 1130 NewsRadio meteorologist Michael Kuss. "That said, we just haven't seen weather like that so far this season.
