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1 month ago | 
vancouver.citynews.ca | Mike Lloyd |Charlie Carey
A memorial at the site where a 15-year-old Abbotsford boy was stabbed to death on Saturday continues to grow. Larch Park filled with mourners on Tuesday night, with many laying flowers, hand-written signs, and framed photographs in the open green space. Candles placed during the vigil were still alight Wednesday morning, flickering among the messages of sorrows and condolences.
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1 month ago | 
vancouver.citynews.ca | Mike Lloyd |Charlie Carey
Vancouver Park Board rangers are at a Downtown Eastside park on Friday morning, enforcing a newly issued restriction that targets unhoused people's belongings. The new rule affects the number of items people sleeping rough can have with them in Oppenheimer Park. As of Friday, people are only allowed to have a single tote's worth of belongings. Anything more than that may be confiscated.
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1 month ago | 
vancouver.citynews.ca | Mike Lloyd |Charlie Carey
As BC Ferries is set to announce its plans for summer service on Wednesday, one ferry-reliant community says chronic disruptions and delays need to be addressed immediately. Gibsons Mayor Silas White says the town has been trying to get the ferry corporation to talk about it for months. White tells 1130 NewsRadio that they only found out about Wednesday's announcement for summer plans through the media.
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1 month 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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Mar 6, 2025 | 
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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Mar 6, 2025 | 
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.
