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A confirmed measles case has prompted Fraser Health to issue an alert to passengers on a recent B.C. Ferries sailing, as well as to students at a Metro Vancouver high school.

The lives of workers at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital (FPH) in Coquitlam are being endangered, according to their unions. The B.C. Government and Service Employees Union (BCGEU) says recent serious assaults on staff at the institution by patients show a disturbing trend.

A Burnaby resident has had his mail stolen by a suspect caught on the home security camera, and believes the thief has been stealing mail elsewhere in the neighbourhood.

The Shovel Lake wildfire burns on a mountain above Fraser Lake near Fort Fraser, B.C., on Thursday August 23, 2018.

Vancouver Flipout Pinball Expo organizer Tommy Floyd expects at least 1,500 people to attend this weekend’s festivities at the Roundhouse. Photograph By DAN TOULGOET Vancouver will be teeming with ballers this weekend.

Mark Brand outside his Save On Meats restaurant and butcher shop. Photo Dominic Schaefer The story of Save On Meats proprietor Mark Brand is evolving retroactively.

Every year in the Lower Mainland, an average of 27 people are killed in distracted driving-related crashes. It’s now the second leading contributing factor in fatal collisions, ahead of impaired driving.

A man who fell down a set of stairs while conducting a personal fire drill at his Burnaby condo didn’t come up with enough evidence to sue his strata for negligence, according to a B.C. Supreme Court judge.

Council voted 6-2 at a Sept. 5 public hearing to remove seven parcels of land at the north end of Arbutus corridor from the Arbutus Corridor Official Development Plan.

A longtime tenant of a 23-suite apartment building selling for $10.5 million and marketed to buyers for its “under market” rents joined COPE council candidate Jean Swanson Thursday to smash a piñata with a baseball bat in protest of the city’s soaring rents.