B.C. Coroners Service reported 36 deaths outdoors in the first two weeks of the new year Fiona York attempts to deliver building supplies to CRAB Park as the Vancouver police and park rangers stand guard.Photo by NICK PROCAYLO /10103562A Homeless advocates went to CRAB Park in downtown Vancouver on Thursday morning hoping to begin constructing … Read more
The centre for disease control says the deaths follow a surge in the bacterial infections, often after a respiratory viral illness Health authorities in B.C. are warning the public about higher levels of invasive strep A infections among children, including four deaths since mid-December linked to the bacterium alongside other respiratory viral illness.Photo by Jeff … Read more
FILE – Defendant Kevin Monahan, left, listens to opening statements in his murder trial, Jan. 11, 2024, at the Washington County Courthouse in Fort Edward, N.Y. Blake Walsh, the boyfriend of a 20-year-old woman fatally shot in the neck when they pulled into the wrong driveway last year, testified Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, in the … Read more
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A prosecutor said Thursday that a California man acted callously in pulling out his gun and firing a shot at a car traveling on the freeway, killing a 6-year-old boy who was riding in the back in a booster seat. Marcus Eriz, who is now 26, sat in the courtroom … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that some coral were present off the Atlantic, the reef’s size remained a mystery until new underwater mapping technology made it possible to construct 3D … Read more
MIAMI (AP) — A month before their fellow major leaguers will report for spring training, Aroldis Chapman, Yuli Gurriel and several other Cuban big leaguers assembled on an intimate field in Miami this week and slipped on gear with reminders of home. Joined by aspiring baseball prospects and grizzled retirees, they donned blue hats adorned … Read more
Michael Hastings, an aggressive and iconoclastic journalist whose reporting exposed the vagaries of the war in Iraq and helped bring down the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, died early Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, according to two of his employers. He was 33. The coroner and other authorities would not confirm the … Read more
Vancouver park board is warning people to stay off the lake, saying it isn’t thick enough People dressed in Vancouver Canucks jerseys play hockey on frozen Trout Lake amid a cold snap in Vancouver on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024.Photo by ETHAN CAIRNS /THE CANADIAN PRESS Andrew Mar was lacing up at Trout Lake in Vancouver, … Read more
The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. was called in after the shooting on March 16, 2023 FIle photo of an Independent Investigations OfficePhoto by Independent Investigations Offic /PROVINCE Investigators have exonerated a Prince George RCMP officer who shot a suicidal man who charged at the Mountie with a knife. The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. … Read more
The 180 members represented by CUPE 4500 will walk off the job and set up picket lines at bus depots as of 3 a.m. Monday for 48 hours, effectively suspending bus and SeaBus service. The expanded strike action comes after members had already launched an overtime ban on Jan. 6 in response to failed mediation … Read more