CKNW-AM (Vancouver, BC)

1 day ago | globalnews.ca | Paul Johnson

Conservation groups are celebrating after Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) ordered a halt to controversial gravel mining from a salmon-bearing stream near Mission, B.C.But while opponents say they're happy the work has been stopped, they're concerned about how long it took the government to act. Biologists John Werring and Marvin Rosenau started pushing the issue after they found a cluster of dead fish in a dried-up salmon spawning bed in December.

2 days ago | globalnews.ca | Amy Judd

David Gardiner received a handout from the City of Vancouver on June 6, telling him that his street name was going to be changing. He has lived on the now formerly-named Trutch Street for 40 years, which now bears the name šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street (pronounced sh-MUS-quee-um-AW-sum), which translates to Musqueamview in English. Signposts bear the English name below the official Musqueam name, which is written in the North American Phonetic Alphabet.

2 days ago | globalnews.ca | Amy Judd

A Campbell River, B.C., couple who host a short-term rental say a popular travel site cancelled thousands of dollars worth of bookings without warning. They are now trying to reassure guests and recover the losses but say Booking.com isn't giving them any answers. Erin and George Roach have a two-bedroom suite in their home that has become a popular short-term rental for their guests from all over the world.

2 days ago | globalnews.ca | Amy Judd

An organization that helps the unhoused on the streets of Victoria will be shutting down after 17 years. Sylvia Ceacero, CEO of the Alliance to End Homelessness Victoria, confirmed to Global News that the funding for the organization has been removed or restructured and due to insufficient funding, they will not be able to operate in the future. "So the board decided to recommend to the membership that we dissolve the alliance in the coming months," she said.

2 days ago | globalnews.ca | Stewart Bell

Newly released court documents have detailed how a senior Indian intelligence officer allegedly recruited a businessman to assassinate a Canadian pro-Khalistan activist. The unsealed files said Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national suspected of drugs and weapons trafficking, had admitted he was asked at a meeting in New Delhi to conduct the killing.