Vancouver Home Sales Up 73% Year-Over-Year In A Sellers Market

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver said Tuesday that February sales in the B.C. region totalled 3,727, a 73.3 percent increase from the 2,150 sales recorded the year before and a 56 percent sp...

BC COVID-19 DAILY UPDATE: The Pandemic Is Very Much Still With Us, Say Health Authorities

BC health authorities said current modelling shows us how the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed in the province over the past year. “What we have seen very clearly is no one is immune to the virus or...

NASA’S indo-American Engineer Says Perseverance Rover’s Exciting Work To Happen In Coming Weeks

Vishnu Sridhar, who is from Queens, New York, is a lead system engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California for SuperCam on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which is o...

BC COVID-19 DAILY UPDATE: 531 New Cases And 51 Variants Announced Wednesday

While cases of a COVID-19 continue at a steady pace of 500 plus but deaths have gone down significantly with only one death announced Wednesday. But the variants are on the rise as vaccine rollout hit...

PANDEMIC: 2020 Was Deadliest Year For Drug Overdose Deaths In BC

There were 1,716 deaths due to illicit drugs in 2020 in B.C., representing a 74% increase over the number of deaths recorded in 2019 (984). The number of illicit drug toxicity deaths in 2020 equates t...

Surrey Gets Tree City Designation For Second Consecutive Year

The Tree Cities of the World Program is an international initiative intended to recognize cities and towns that are committed to ensuring their urban forests are celebrated, properly maintained and su...

Australia Warns Indian “Goons” Of Deportation Following Attacks On Sikhs

The police have promised to “come down as hard as we need to” but Amar Singh of Turbans for Australia said: “They are targeting our community.” The Australian Alliance Against Hate and Violenc...

BC COVID-19 DAILY UPDATE: Weekend Sees 11 Deaths And 1462 Cases With Variant Cases On The Rise

While deaths remained moderate, daily cases of COVID-19 continued their 500 plus pace during the weekend but saw a drop in the last 24 hours to 385 cases. Meanwhile the more contagious Variants are al...

South Asian Suspects Sought As VPD Warns The Public About Rise In Distraction Thefts

On January 28 near Main Street and East 41st Avenue, a man, a woman and three children in a black minivan approached the victim and claimed to need money to get to Montreal. The suspects drove the vic...