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The V2V Empress left the Point Hope Shipyard on Dec. 13. Photograph By DARREN STONE, Times Colonist A passenger ferry between downtown Victoria and Vancouver has delayed its return to service until the new year.

The carnage of Christmas leaves plenty of things to recycle. Christmas is a time of plenty, including plenty of garbage. Here’s a quick guide to what you can and can’t put in your recycling bins.

Marijuana/Shutterstock Marijuana consumers are likely to have a flood of options when pot becomes legal next summer and now a not-for-profit group is stepping in to help determine which products to trust.

Tacheena Sutherland, 8, left, watches Nevaeh Porter, 9, look at the burned out truck at her grandparents’ home in in Ashcroft, B.C., on Monday November 27, 2017.

Larry Claypool. Photo Gofundme Yesterday we shared the story by Jessica Kerr of the Vancouver Courier about an online fundraising initiative that had launched for one of the victims of the Burrard Bridge car accident earlier in the week.

Shutterstock Canada Revenue Agency does not want your Bitcoin. That’s the message from New Westminster Police following a recent spike in reports of scammers demanding the virtual currency.

File photo An ongoing investigation into a rash of break-ins in South Vancouver has led to more arrests. Vancouver police launched Project Lookout last month after several residents reported that their homes were ransacked and items were missing.

A GoFundMe campaign has raised more than $45,000 for Christian Zelichowski, who was seriously injured in a crash on the Burrard Street Bridge Dec. 19.

Various brands of bread sit on shelves in a grocery store in Toronto on Wednesday Nov. 1, 2017.

Boxy, the Westender mascot, at Vanier Park. Photograph By Dan Tougloet How does one say goodbye to the paper that established their career and served as a family and second home? I guess by acknowledging that it was never really mine to begin with.