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Launched in Vancouver three years ago, online bike registration system Project 529 is being credited with a 30 per cent drop in reported bike thefts in the city.

A former school teacher and church volunteer has been jailed for one year after spending a year grooming a young teenage boy for sex. Bernard Michael Macht was sentenced at Richmond Provincial Court on Monday morning.

The expansion of the Vancouver Public Library's central branch will continue with major enhancements to the Children's Library, thanks to a $5 million private donation.

The CANstruction food bank fundraiser is taking over Burnaby, with its first event in the Greater Vancouver area in more than two years happening at Lougheed Town Centre.

Kennedy Stewart has made it clear that housing is Priority 1 on his agenda when he is sworn in as Vancouver’s first independent mayor in more than 30 years on November 5.

The Big Star Sandwich chain has thrown open the doors of its first store in Richmond, after wowing customers in cities such as Burnaby, Surrey, Langley and Maple Ridge.

While Vancouverites were privy to weeks of straight sunshine this fall, the Halloween forecast is calling for a chance of rain on the big night.

The Vancouver weather forecast is calling for seven straight days of rain after heavy rainfall caused massive flooding in the city.

Seven-year-old R.J. Pena and his neighbour were honoured for their heroic roles in saving Pena's family from a house fire in East Vancouver.

The College of Midwives of B.C. has tightened up an injunction against a rogue birth attendant who went to jail in 2002 for violating a court order by managing several home births – including one that ended in an emergency caesarean section at Burnaby Hospital.