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Photo Melissa Shaw Vancouver Green Party councillor Adriane Carr joined members of the city's seniors advisory committee in marking World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.

TransLink plans to add 80 new cars to the SkyTrain system between 2018 and 2019 | Rob Kruyt TransLink has released data showing how much transit use has increased in May ahead of a scheduled fare increase on July 1 .

Photo Shutterstock Premier John Horgan's news conference about protecting British Columbia's wild salmon stocks was interrupted by a protester shouting "you sold us out," and "our salmon are dying.

Photo Shutterstock Transport Canada says a substance that fell from the sky and onto vehicles and people in two British Columbia communities was not human feces from aircraft, but one woman believes the foul-smelling material that landed in her eyes

Downtown Eastside resident Elaine Durocher poses for a photograph in Vancouver, on Thursday June 14, 2018.

Photo Shutterstock On June 13, 1886 a fire destroyed most of the newly incorporated City of Vancouver. The Old Hastings Mill Store Museum (1575 Alma Street) is hosting an event , The Paddle Song & the Great Fire of Vancouver, at 1 p.m.

Two spans of the Second Narrows Bridge sit stuck in Burrard Inlet following the bridge’s collapse during construction on June 17, 1958. Eighteen men died in the collapse and another was killed days later while diving to recover a body.

UPDATE JUNE 19 3:01PM: RCMP confirm the vessel that capsized in Tofino early Friday morning with five people on board has been located. The three missing men remain unaccounted for. An RCMP underwater recovery team is working to recover the boat.

A building is seen at Trinity Western University in Langley, B.C., on Wednesday, February 22, 2017.

Photo By WESTERN CANADA MARINE RESPONSE CORP. The first of 43 new spill response vessels being built to support the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion was launched last week in Prince Rupert.