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V2V Vacations shutting down its Victoria-Vancouver ferry service

V2V Vacations, the passenger ferry service running between downtown Victoria and downtown Vancouver, announced Monday that it is shutting down. In a statement on its website, V2V Vacations said it will not resume operations in 2020.
Meet the first North Shore baby of the New Year

Meet the first North Shore baby of the New Year

The North Shore’s first citizen to make an entrance in 2020 could have been a Christmas baby instead of a New Year’s baby. Christine Thornton and Paul Kell, of North Vancouver, had originally been given Dec. 25 as the likely due date for their baby.
Environment Canada says Vancouver has ‘best chance’ for snow this week

Environment Canada says Vancouver has ‘best chance’ for snow this week

‘We have all of the necessary ingredients for snow this week’
Body cams, more oversight for conservation officers, says group upset over B.C. bear killings

Body cams, more oversight for conservation officers, says group upset over B.C. bear killings

A B.C. environmental group is calling on the province to outfit conservation officers with body cameras to create more accountability when killing bears. The measure is one of the three recommendations Pacific Wild put forward in a Jan.
Metro Vancouver Korean War veterans invited to special event

Metro Vancouver Korean War veterans invited to special event

A Metro Vancouver military historian is putting the call out for veterans of the Korean War. Guy Black is working to organize a special event for Korean War veterans and their families. On Jan.
Fundraiser launched for Vancouver taxi driver killed in crash with suspected impaired driver

Fundraiser launched for Vancouver taxi driver killed in crash with suspected impaired driver

A fundraiser has been launched for the Vancouver taxi driver who was killed in a car crash on Dec. 29. Sanehpal Singh Randhawa was driving a Yellow Cab with two passengers in it when, police say, he was struck by a car2go vehicle around 3:30 a.m.
Whistler could be home to First Nations therapy training centre

Whistler could be home to First Nations therapy training centre

The Lil'wat Nation and Whistler Learning Centre (WLC) are partnering on a proposal to potentially establish a First Nations Excellence Centre in Whistler that will train Indigenous students from across the country in the latest mental health therapie
Injured woman airlifted from Mount Seymour

Injured woman airlifted from Mount Seymour

North Shore Rescue’s busy start to 2020 continued with their fourth call in two days , including two rescue missions on the same stretch of trail. A Port Moody woman was hiking Dog Mountain trail with a group just after 1 p.m.
Squamish detached housing assessments doing better than most of Lower Mainland

Squamish detached housing assessments doing better than most of Lower Mainland

Absence of speculation and foreign buyers' taxes could be the reason: UBC professor
Rare extreme avalanche rating issued for Sea-to-Sky mountains

Rare extreme avalanche rating issued for Sea-to-Sky mountains

“Very large avalanches are almost certain” on Friday, Jan. 3, warned Avalanche Canada in an uncommon extreme avalanche warning issued for the Sea-to-Sky mountains.