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BC Lotteries Corporation has engaged a third-party auditor to monitor B.C.’s busiest casinos to make sure gaming workers are recording source of gaming funds declarations properly.

Halloween season has arrived and residents of Metro Vancouver will be heading out to go trick or treating with their families.

A GoFundMe has been created for the recovery of a victim of a horrible assault. Shawn Jones, who is the General Manager of Nomad restaurant, was on her way home from work when she was brutally assaulted by a stranger.

Surrey RCMP are asking the public for their assistance in locating a missing teen. The 15-year-old male was last seen at 11:30 am on October 17 in the 1900 block of King George Boulevard.

While female candidates’ successes at the council level might be a first for the city, there is still a way to go, says Ellen Woodsworth, a former city councillor and founder of Women Transforming Cities a group whose aim is to make cities friendlier to women and girls.

A mechanical issue caused a whale watching boat near Bowen Island to send a distress signal and unload its passengers. Vancouver Is Awesome spoke to Sally, a Marine Naturalist from Wild Whales Vancouver, who informed us that all of 35 passengers and crew are safe.

Few details have been released about why New Westminster police officers are searching for a dead man’s car. The car belonged to a 57-year-old New Westminster man who died recently. His cause of death is unknown at this time, but police don’t suspect foul play.

While the city has enjoyed weeks of bright, warm sunshine, the Vancouver weather forecast calls for a great deal of rain to come.

Yesterday, news broke that 34-year-old Jon James McMurray had tragically lost his life while filming a stunt on the wing of a plane. The rapper was shooting a music video in the Okanagan that involved him walking out onto the wing of a plane.

British Columbia leads all regions of the country as the province where the largest proportion of residents (64%) believe driving has not improved over the past five years.