Police in Vancouver are looking for witnesses after a 53-year-old cyclist was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a collision with a vehicle.
They say the biker was struck on East 10th Avenue Clark Drive intersection around 6 a-m yesterday.
Police say the driver of the Honda Fit remained at the scene and is collaborating with the investigation.
They are asking anyone who may have had dash cam videos of the incident to come forward.
A British Columbia man has been convicted for his involvement in an international online group dedicated to trafficking child pornography. The province's RCMP division says in a release that 34-year-old Joel Andy Daigle from Surrey was charged with child exploitation in April 2020 and has been sentenced to an 18-month conditional term to be served in the community.
Police in West Vancouver say a “joyride” by a 13-year-old in a Lamborghini set off a single-vehicle crash that resulted in a total writeoff by the insurance company. Police say in a news release issued Wednesday that they were called to a report of a crash last week and found the Lamborghini Huracan badly damaged in a ditch.
Police say a woman has been found dead in south Vancouver. An investigation is now underway in an area near the Fraserview Golf Course.
Greater Vancouver's real estate board says there were about 24-hundred home sales in the region last month. It represents a 4.7 per cent decrease from the roughly 25-hundred sales recorded in March last year.
Finance Minister Katrine Conroy told the legislature that the tax is aimed at speculators who use housing only to turn a quick profit and it will make "profiteers think twice about a practice that inflates housing costs during a housing crisis."
BC Hydro is looking for more clean power to add to its grids as electricity demands are expected to increase by 15 per cent in the next six years. The Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation says the Crown power utility has issued its first call in 15 years and is looking to acquire about 3,000 gigawatt hours per year.