Vancouver Police arrested more than 200 offenders and recovered $75,000 in stolen property during a month-long anti-shoplifting campaign in the downtown core."Business owners and their staff continue to struggle with prolific, and often violent thieves, who seem to think they can steal with impunity," says Sergeant Steve Addison. "Since November 4, a dedicated group of VPD officers has worked directly with retail staff in the downtown core to identify and apprehend shoplifters. The results are alarming."The numbers:323 incidents investigated195 arrests330 criminal charges$75,052 merchandise re

Highway 11 between Hazelwood Avenue and Clayburn Road has reopened to passenger and emergency vehicles, restoring the highway connection between Abbotsford and Mission.Traffic is moving in a single lane in each direction between Hazelwood and Clayburn using the southbound lanes of Highway 11. The northbound lanes remain closed until the highway can be repaired.There will be no left turn onto Highway 11 from Valley Road.This section of Highway 11 is limited to passenger vehicles only, plus emergency and municipal service vehicles. Drivers should obey all signage and traffic control. Delays can

Police in Abbotsford say the RCMP's homicide team has taken charge of the investigation into human remains found inside a burned vehicle. They say officers found the remains after responding to reports of a vehicle fire around the five-thousand-block of Riverside Street yesterday morning. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Mounties' Integrated Homicide Investigation team. Abbotsford Police on Twitter: UPDATE - Vehicle Fire Results in Suspicious Death December 6th, 2021 AbbyPD investigators have now transitioned this investigation to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team Anyo

British Columbia's health minister says he isn't as worried about the newest COVID-19 variant, Omicron, because the focus needs to stay on the Delta variant, which is having a ``profound impact'' on the province. Adrian Dix says the Delta variant is disproportionately affecting those who haven't been vaccinated, citing more than 150 people, most of them unvaccinated, who have been moved from the Northern Health authority to southern hospitals. He says the transfers are weighing down the health-care system because most of those people are in critical condition and require teams of health-care

The Trans Mountain pipeline has restarted following a three-week precautionary shutdown during a series of storms that battered BC. The federal Crown corporation says the pipeline was safely restarted yesterday after all necessary assessments and repairs were completed. It says some of that work included the construction of ``protective earthworks'' after flooding exposed sections of the pipeline that carries 300,000 barrels per day of petroleum products from Alberta to B.C. Trans Mountain says it's monitoring the pipeline on the ground, by air and through its control centre after the restart

Police in Abbotsford say officers found human remains after responding to reports of a vehicle on fire early yesterday morning. The forensic identification unit was at the scene, but police offered no further details, noting the investigation had just begun. Anyone with information is asked to contact Abbotsford police.

B-C has expanded emergency financial assistance for people affected by extensive flooding and landslides over the last three weeks. The Ministry of Public Safety says the disaster financial assistance program is available to help eligible people recover from the impacts of a series of destructive storms between November 14th and December 2nd. It says eligibility has been expanded to affected residents in the northwest, southwest, central and southeast regions as well as Vancouver Island. Applications will be accepted until March 3rd

The R-C-M-P say a man sustained non-life-threatening injuries in what they believe may have been a targeted shooting in Coquitlam on Saturday. The Mounties say the man's nine-year-old son, who was in the back seat of the vehicle at the time of the shooting, was unharmed. They say there's not enough information yet to establish or rule out a link between the shooting and gang conflict in the Lower Mainland, but they don't believe it was a completely random act. A silver sedan was seen leaving the area after the shooting and police are asking anyone who was around Westwood Plateau between 4:2

Snowfall warnings covered Vancouver Island and parts of B-C's south coast overnight, with the potential for wet flurries lasting into this afternoon. Environment Canada says much of the island could see between five and 10 centimetres of snow near the water and up to 20 at higher elevations inland. Between two and 10 centimetres of snow was expected to fall over the Greater Victoria area, Sunshine Coast and the southern Gulf Islands. The same amount was expected across the Lower Mainland, including Howe Sound, Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.