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BC Hydro is warning homeowners who string up elaborate holiday lighting displays that those decorations can significantly boost power costs.

As for Vancouver, the starting fee is listed as $2.64 with a one kilometre charge of $1.42, which put it in the 48th spot. So, as far as taxi fares are concerned, it is has some of the most average.

For the surviving koi of the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, the ordeal is over for now. Transplanted from their Chinatown pond after a harrowing week under attack from a rogue river otter, the remaining fish are now swimming safely at the Vancouver Aquarium.

Seventeen residents in Metro Vancouver have claimed that they were scammed by a man who offers renovation services on the Chinese-speaking messaging app Wechat only to vanish after receiving the deposit.

According to recent data collected from ICBC, new drivers are 5.6 times more at risk of getting into a crash than those with 20 years of driving experience. Further, those crashes tend to be more severe.

The U.S. Geological Survey has reported a magnitude 4.2 earthquake in northeastern B.C.

Four teens who spray-painted a homophobic slur across a rainbow crosswalk at a Burnaby school last weekend will go through the RCMP’s restorative justice program.

Two pet owners in Squamish say their dogs recently fell ill after eating human feces laced THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive compound in cannabis.

A 13-year-old singer-songwriter from Richmond won a province-wide talent search with a stunning performance of his original song “I Don’t Miss You.”

A British Properties man is suing the District of West Vancouver alleging his collection of antique firearms was wrongly destroyed by West Vancouver police.