Vancouver Rundown

Two more South Coast ski hills are opening this weekend - Grouse and Seymour. It follows this week’s fresh snow dumps on the North Shore Mountains. On Thursday, Whistler-Blackcomb re-opened. All mountains are operating with a few of their runs set to go…full-openings usually start during the winter break.

We now know some of the strongest gusts reached up to 170 km/h in that windstorm that hit Vancouver Island and parts of the Lower Mainland Tuesday evening. BC Hydro also says close to 300,000 customers were without power at the peak of the ‘cyclone bomb.’ Vancouver’s Langara College had to cancel classes Wednesday morning over concerns about fallen trees on power lines. Meanwhile, many parts of th...

Parts of Vancouver Island have been hardest hit by a ‘bomb cyclone’ of high winds and heavy downpours that hit the South Coast Tuesday evening. BC Ferries cancelled many of its sailings, half a dozen highways and roads were closed and more than 200,000 BC Hydro customers were hit by outages. There are remaining concerns about flooding in some areas of the South Coast as heavy rain continues for mu...

Breaking news: Snow (or snow mixed with rain) has fallen in many parts of the Lower Mainland. Those driving through higher elevations or eastern sections of Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley started reporting some snow late Monday night. Wind advisories are posted for Tuesday afternoon. Other news… Adrian Dix is no longer B.C.’s Health Minister. That’s the most notable of many moves in a huge...

The Toronto Argonauts beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 41-24 to win this year’s CFL Grey Cup in Vancouver. That’s the third year in a row the Blue Bombers lost the big game. Nick Arbuckle picked up MVP honours after throwing two touchdown passes. The Grey Cup game also included a surprise BC Place appearance by Prince Harry.

Canada Lands Company, a federal crown corporation, will sell its stake in a high-profile Vancouver housing project to an Indigenous led developer. Daily Hive reports CLC will sell-off its share of the Heather Lands, just west of Queen Elizabeth Park, to co-owner MST Development - owned by the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Close to 2,600 homes will be built in several phases...

Wednesday was a recovery day as yet another November storm swept across the Lower Mainland. Close to 20-thousand homes and businesses were without power due to high winds. Those conditions also prompted up to five-sailing waits for BC Ferries on the Mainland-Vancouver Island runs. Some commuters also had to contend with pooling water, slowing down traffic in many areas.

John Horgan has died. The former B.C. NDP Premier turned Canadian Ambassador to Germany has passed away following a third battle with cancer. Horgan was considered one of Canada’s most popular premiers - managing to bridge political divides. Some of his accomplishments included removing tolls on the Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges and eliminating MSP premiums, He died Tuesday at Victoria’s Royal...

Those living in the federal riding of Cloverdale-Langley will go to the polls on Dec. 16. That byelection date was announced over the weekend, squaring a vacancy left by Liberal MP John Aldag’s failed attempt to win a seat as an NDP MLA. Indigenous communications specialist and law school graduate Madison Fleischer will run for the Liberals while former MP Tamara Jansen expects to turn back the se...

One of Vancouver’s longest standing and best-known homeless camps is gone…for now. Rangers moved in Thursday afternoon and started dismantling tents in CRAB Park. Those with the City say they have been working to make sure everyone has a place to go - but CRAB Park will be treated like all other Vancouver parks with no overnight camping allowed.

Homicide investigators are only now confirming the death of a woman from Surrey who was reported missing Feb. 23, 2024. The body of 28-year-old Navdeep Kaur was found this past summer near the Massey Tunnel. RCMP say Kaur’s death may have been the result of criminality. No more details are being released even though the remains were found at the foot of Williams Road in Richmond back on July 23. S...

Breaking news… Donald Trump has been elected the next President of the United States. While final results were not confirmed Tuesday night, Trump received enough of the electoral college votes to beat Democrat Kamala Harris. He also won the popular vote. The States will also have a majority in both the Senate and House of Representatives, making any of Trump’s judicial appointments and cabinet con...

The wind came late and stayed a little too long. More than 150 thousand homes and businesses were hit by blackouts as strong winds hit the Lower Mainland Monday. Some of the strongest winds on the south coast were almost 110 km/h keeping BC Hydro crews and contractors busy. Meanwhile, home and business owners have been asked to keep storm drains clear of leaves so water from the heavy rain can cle...

Weather warnings remain posted as heavy rain and strong winds continue to hit the B.C. south coast. Wind and snow warnings are also up for mountain passes heading in and out of the Lower Mainland. Extra BC Hydro crews and contractors have been called-in in anticipation of power outages. The storm conditions are expected to end by Monday afternoon.

Golden Ears Park north of Maple Ridge is closed until further notice thanks to damage from the recent heavy rain. The stormy weather has cut into river banks and park roads and left lots of debris. The campgrounds are closed. There will be no vehicle access to Golden Ears until further notice.

Three people died in an intense house fire north of Duncan on Monday. All bodies were found at the scene. The updated details from the RCMP come more than two days after firefighters from North Cowichan, Maple Bay, Crofton and Chemainus were called to put out the fire. That house is now rubble. There’s still no word on how the fire started.

Premier David Eby is reaching out to opposition members following word the NDP will form a thin, majority government. Eby says his party has its work cut-out noting British Columbians want more from their government. He’s not ruling out asking a BC Conservative to serve as Speaker of the House. The comments come in his first official news conference following the confirmation of results from the B...

The BC NDP have managed to scrape out a slim, majority government after several recounts. Barring any unexpected change due to a judicial recount, David Eby’s New Democrats return to power with 47 seats. That means they won’t need the support of B.C.’s two newly elected Green MLAs to pass legislation. The BC Conservatives won 44 seats.

David Eby and the BC NDP appear all-but-certain to form that minority government - election night results from a week ago are holding after weekend recounts. The NDP has increased its lead in some close races but no seats have flipped. Only a small number of absentee ballots are left to be counted before Elections BC confirms its final result.

British Columbians will have to wait until next week - at the earliest - to learn the official results of the provincial election. Elections BC says a final count will be finished on Monday. If election night results hold, David Eby will most likely remain as premier in a minority government. The BC Greens will hold the balance of power and are not entertaining any notions of partnering with the B...

ICBC is now dealing with 266 claims relating to damage from the weekend rainstorms. In some cases, cars floated away due to flooding. Many of the vehicles suffered repairable electrical damage - others are write-offs. ICBC has warned all drivers with partially submerged vehicles to not start the ignition until all the water is gone.

The BC Greens are not ready to formally enter into any agreement with the presumptive governing NDP. That’s the word from New Democrat leader David Eby who also says he’s preparing for every possibility as he awaits the still-to-be confirmed outcome of the provincial election. Meanwhile, Sonia Furstenau has confirmed she will stay on as leader of the BC Greens despite losing her seat.

A fight broke out inside a New Westminster courtroom shortly after two men pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the killing of a prime suspect in the 1985 Air India bombing. One of the two rushed over to punch his co-accused after they both pleaded guilty to killing Surrey businessman Rupidaman Singh Malik. On July 14, 2022, Jose Lopez and Tanner Fox waited in a car outside Malik’s Surrey bus...

While David Eby appears poised to keep his job as premier, it may be a couple weeks before we officially know if B.C.’s NDP will hold on to power and whether the province will be governed by a majority or minority government. Eby’s New Democrats hold or are leading with 46 seats while the B.C. Conservatives have 45 seats and the Greens - two rookies were elected. Green leader Sonia Furstenau did n...

Advance voter turn out has been heavy and B.C. may have a dramatic shift in government - those are two of the realities heading into General Election Day. Many pundits have been expecting a toss up between the governing NDP and the newcomers - the B.C. Conservatives. Polls open at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday.