June 2026

There were 93 accidental drownings in B.C. in 2025, updated B.C. Coroners Service data shows. The B.C. Coroners Service updated its accidental drowning deaths report on Thursday (June 4), detailing deaths from 2015 to 2025. The 93 deaths in 2025 were a five-per-cent decrease from the 98 deaths reported in 2024. Thirty-six of the deaths […]

Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke is distancing herself from the media maelstrom that’s followed the Surrey Police Board’s ouster of founding Surrey Police Service’s chief constable Norm Lipinski earlier this week and subsequent resignation of the board’s chairman and another director. Her political rivals are slamming her as a notorious intellectual author of Lipinski’s departure. Former

“Are you dying? Are you going to heaven, mummy?” Those were the words of Surrey resident and single mom Preet Brar’s son. Brar said her now 25-year-old son started asking questions when her kidney failed in August 2024. “My son, he has global developmental delays, moderate intellectual delays, epilepsy, diabetes,” Brar said. “He’s having a

B.C. rode a Canadawide jobs wave in May, adding 25,000 for the month as part of the 88,000 added across the country. Canada’s unemployment rate dropped to 0.3 points to 6.6 percent, while B.C.’s rate remained steady at 6.8 per cent due to an increased number of people in the labour pool. Jobs Minister Ravi

Two mosquito species that were tested as part of a surveillance project have shown positive results for a virus that can cause illness in people. The surveillance project was launched in summer 2025 in response to a cluster of pediatric encephalitis cases – swelling of the brain – in the Whistler area where invasive species