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The rental vacancy rate may have eased slightly across all of Metro Vancouver, but it has headed in the other direction within Vancouver’s city limits, according to new annual data released November 28 by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).

A forestry professor with the University of B.C.’s Forest and Conservation Sciences department, Hinch is responsible for heading up first-of-its-kind research into salmon tracking and health monitoring.

Transit Police are asking the public for help identifying a suspect in an alleged assault that took place on Thursday, Oct. 4.

Vancouver police are renewing calls for witnesses and victims to come forward in a rash of alleged sexual assault cases spanning across Vancouver, rural B.C. and into Alberta.

Constable Scarecrow has passed probation with the Coquitlam RCMP. The detachment is giving a one-year contract extension “for a job well-done,” according to a detachment press release.

The weekly shower program at Kitsilano Community Centre has helped the area’s homeless population for about 18 years with some of the most basic, universal comforts: heat, coffee and camaraderie.

Rather than heavy rain, the Vancouver weather forecast calls for bright sunshine this weekend and into the following week.

If you dream of rustic luxury in total seclusion – and have $30 million burning a hole in your pocket, plus your own float plane – then this pair of B.C. islands could be for you.

The plight Vancouver renters face in finding and keeping affordable housing was highlighted by speaker after speaker Nov. 27 as dozens urged city council to pass a motion “in its entirety” aimed at protecting tenants from renovictions and aggressive buy-outs.

The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia is slashing its advertising budget in half and redirecting the funds toward police traffic enforcement.