Delta police are searching for the person responsible for damaging a Pride Flag hung from a United Church entranceway. Police say the suspect, believed to be a man in his 50's, hid his face and tried to cover up the church surveillance camera before striking the flag multiple times with a pole early yesterday morning. They say they believe the pole had some form of a sharp edge at the tip because the flag was torn in multiple locations. Police say multiple City of Delta Pride Flags attached to light standards in the area suffered similar damage. Click the link to watch video: https://deltapol

Vancouver Police are investigating after two people were slashed with a machete outside a Downtown Eastside hotel last month, and are asking anyone with information to call police. Multiple witnesses flagged down police on June 19 around 7 p.m., after a 49-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman were approached from behind by the suspect and allegedly slashed while loading their luggage into a taxi near Main and East Hastings streets."We don’t know if there was a motive for this attack," says Constable Tania Visintin. "Investigators believe it was completely random and unprovoked, and they want

Jobs Minister Ravi Kahlon says he won't be running for the leadership of the BC New Democrats, but he says he would support David Eby, if the attorney general decided to seek the party's top job. Eby has not announced his leadership intentions, but in a social media message posted this morning, Kahlon says he admires Eby's integrity and passion. Kahlon says he and his family have decided now is not the time for him to seek the leadership, but he believes Eby is the right person to be BC's next premier. No one has yet declared plans to replace Premier John Horgan, who announced last month that

Someone who bought a Lotto Max lottery ticket in Vancouver is 15 million dollars richer, but they will have to act quickly if they hope to collect the windfall. The BC Lottery Corporation says the ticket was purchased in August last year and the prize winners have 52 weeks to come forward, or they will forfeit the cash. The ticket was for the August 13, 2021, Lotto Max draw and carried the winning numbers of 1-14-17-20-28-32 and 38. So far this year, BC players have redeemed more than 64-million dollars from Lotto Max payouts.

The man charged with killing seven people at an Independence Day parade confessed to police that he unleashed a hail of bullets from a rooftop in suburban Chicago and then fled to the Madison, Wisconsin, area, where he contemplated shooting up an event there. That's according to authorities who spoke Wednesday. Robert Crimo III turned back to Illinois, where he was later arrested after deciding he was not prepared to pull off a shooting in Wisconsin. An Illinois judge ordered Crimo to be held without bail. A prosecutor said police found the shells of 83 bullets and three ammunition magazines

RCMP are investigating a head-on crash in British Columbia's Shuswap region that left three people dead. A statement from Chase RCMP says police were called to an area along the Trans-Canada Highway near Sorrento Tuesday afternoon. It says all the occupants of both vehicles died at the scene. Police say witnesses report a black sedan crossed into the path of an oncoming westbound SUV, hitting it head on. The RCMP say the crash killed a 51-year-old Sorrento man, a 67-year old woman and a 60-year-old man, both from Blind Bay. The BC Coroners Service and police continue to investigate.

In order to enhance the efficacy of the Revenue department, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann today announced to reduce the training period of newly recruited Patwaris, said the Punjab Chief Minister's Office (CMO). Addressing the gathering during a function to distribute District Allotment letters to newly recruited 855 Patwaris here at Municipal Bhawan, the Chief Minister said that the reduction in the training period will enhance the efficiency of the Patwaris working in the field thereby facilitating the common man. Mann said that this is the need of the hour for the progress of the sta

China on Wednesday enforced a lockdown in Xian, home to 13 million people after the city reported the first cases of a new Omicron subvariant. The lockdown was implemented after Xian reported 18 COVID-19 infections from Saturday to Monday, all of which are of the Omicron BA.5.2 subvariant, according to local disease control officials, reported CNN. BA.5.2 is a sub-lineage of BA.5, which is already dominant in the US and appears to escape antibody responses among both people previously infected with COVID-19 and those who have been fully vaccinated and boosted, according to researchers. It is

Free tickets for the Pope's mass in Edmonton are up for grabs starting this morning. Pope Francis is to speak at Commonwealth Stadium on July 26th. A second block of tickets is to be released on July 11th and a final block on July 18th. Priority seating is being given to former residential school survivors, elders and knowledge keepers. All tickets are free and will be available at papalvisit.ca. Only six tickets can be ordered at a time. Commonwealth Stadium has a capacity of 60,000. The pope will be in the Edmonton area between Sunday, July 24 and Wednesday, July 27. Pope Francis will go to