Vancouver Police are investigating the city’s seventh homicide of the year, after a man died in hospital earlier this month. VPD officers responded to reports of an assault near East First Avenue and Main Street at 4:30 p.m. on June 2. Scott Carver, 56, was taken to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries and died.A 61-year-old man has been arrested. Investigators believe the suspect and victim knew each other.The file remains under investigation. Charges have not yet been laid.

Vancouver Police are investigating a fatal collision that killed a 28-year-old man this morning, and are asking anyone with information to come forward. A cyclist and a dump truck collided in the intersection of Pacific and Hornby streets at around 7:30 a.m.Efforts to save the cyclist’s life were not successful and he died at the scene.The driver of the dump truck is cooperating with police. Investigators do not believe speed or impairment were factors in this collision.

A timeline has finally been announced for the removal of a huge barge that wedged itself onto a beach in Vancouver's English Bay last November. A statement from the City of Vancouver says a local pile driving firm will set up fences and barricades around the barge this week.Temporary piles will then be drilled into the Sunset Beach shoreline to secure the barge and, once that work is complete, deconstruction will begin.The city estimates removal of sections of the barge's walls and hull should take 12 to 15 weeks.The statement says industry experts, partners and First Nation groups have been c

A group that has disrupted rush hour traffic around Vancouver and Victoria in a bid to halt logging of old-growth timber now plans to branch out to something less confrontational. A statement from Save Old Growth says it will ``de-escalate disruptive actions'' that have blocked key highways and bridges. The group says, starting today, it will switch to other tactics including public outreach and events. However, the group says it will continue to demand the provincial government take ``urgent steps to permanently protect BC's remaining old growth forests.''

BC Attorney General David Eby says federal, provincial and territorial governments have agreed to a proposed 150 million dollar settlement with Purdue Pharma Canada. Eby says it's the largest settlement of a governmental health care cost claim in Canadian history. The province launched a class-action lawsuit in 2018 against more than 40 drug companies, with the aim of recovering health-care costs related to the sale and marketing of opioid-based pain medication. Eby says the money will support provincial programs to fight the opioid epidemic that governments believe Purdue contributed to thro

An investigation by the Surrey RCMP Community Response Unit into a stolen vehicle has lead to the seizure of drugs, cash and a handgun. On June 15, 2022, the Surrey RCMP Community Response Unit located a stolen vehicle that was occupied by three individuals in the 8400 block of 144 Street. With the assistance of Air 1, the vehicle was safely observed until the driver and passengers exited the vehicle in the 15300-block of 24 Avenue. All occupants were taken into police custody without incident. In the course of the investigation, the officers located and seized:A handgun with two loaded magazi

John Horgan says he will resign in the fall after the New Democrats hold a leadership convention. The 62-year-old premier says he is in good health but his energy flags as the days go by. Horgan says his work has been the thrill of his life and though he is now free of cancer, he's not able to make another six-year commitment to the job. He announced last November that he was diagnosed with throat cancer and also had bladder cancer in his 40s.

Two suspects are deceased and several members of the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team (GVERT) have been transported to hospital during an ongoing incident at a bank in Saanich today. A shelter in place advisory remains in effect for the area of North Dairy Road to Cedar Hill Cross Road, and Richmond Road to Cedar Hill Road as officers search for a potential third suspect. At approximately 11 a.m. this morning officers with Saanich Police, GVERT, and VicPD responded to a report that two armed men had entered a bank in the 3600-block of Shelbourne Street in Saanich. Multiple officers res

The federal government is contributing almost 30 million dollars to help the new Vancouver Art Gallery become the first so-called passive house art gallery in North America. The low-energy building will receive $25 million in funds from Infrastructure Canada, while the Canadian Heritage Department will pitch in $4.3 million. The new gallery will be built a few blocks from the current building and is expected to be complete by 2027. The total cost for the gallery is expected to come in around 400 million dollars.