Local News

FILE – This March 24, 2018, file photo shows a sign in a Starbucks in downtown Pittsburgh. Starbucks is getting rid of plastic straws at its locations around the world.

At Swartz Bay ferry terminal, heavy traffic is expected on Thanksgiving weekend, often the busiest time of the year for foot passengers.

UPDATE JUNE 9, 2018, 7:35AM: She's been found safe and sound. VPD photo Vancouver Police are asking the public to help them find a missing 10-year-old girl Maryjane Tom was last seen at midnight near 45th Avenue and Nanaimo Street in Vancouver.

Michael Ondaatje arrives for the Giller Prize awards in Toronto on November 8, 2011. Michael Ondaatje’s “The English Patient” has been voted the greatest-ever winner of the Man Booker Prize during five decades of the prestigious literary award.

Doctor/Shutterstock A union held a rally on Sunday to call on British Columbia's health minister and the Fraser Health Authority to stop staff layoffs at two long-term care homes in Coquitlam.

Peanut as she was a few years ago. (via Ron Woodall) The Bowen Island Recycling Depot (BIRD) has an unusual tenant. No one knows where she came from or quite how old she is.

Grizzly bear/Shutterstock A park ranger is grateful to be alive after a terrifying grizzly bear attack outside his home in Bella Coola, B.C.

File photo by Adrian Lam/Times Colonist BC Ferries warns that the Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay terminals will be extremely busy on Sunday after it cancelled several sailings on the popular route.

Deer Lake in Burnaby. Photo Shutterstock The death of a 75-year-old man whose body was found at Deer Lake Park on Saturday is not being investigated as suspicious, according to Burnaby RCMP.

The rainbow flag is a staple in Gay Pride parades all over the world. The colours are intended to reflect the diversity of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.