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A dog waste receptacle on a dog walking trail in Metro Vancouver's Tynehead Regional Park in Surrey.

Separate dog poop bins here to stay in Metro Vancouver regional parks

Regional district intends to keep paying for specialized retrieval service that takes excrement to sewage treatment

A dog waste receptacle on a dog walking trail in Metro Vancouver's Tynehead Regional Park in Surrey.
Fewer cross-border shoppers are making the trek south now that the loonie is languishing.

Road trips to U.S. down sharply

Cross-border shopping in decline for B.C. bargain hunters as loonie languishes

Fewer cross-border shoppers are making the trek south now that the loonie is languishing.
Referendum ballots were mailed out in March and are due back to Elections BC by May 29.

Eight per cent of transit referendum ballots received

Early tally shows mail-in ballots now at Elections BC have come from only Vancouver, Surrey, Richmond, Burnaby and Coquitlam

Referendum ballots were mailed out in March and are due back to Elections BC by May 29.
Fraser Surrey Docks operation just across the Fraser River from New Westminster is supposed to add a coal-handling facility, but the project remains under a legal cloud.

Multiple hurdles hold back Surrey coal terminal

One court challenge ends but others are pending against Fraser Surrey Docks and anti-coal activists believe time is on their side

Fraser Surrey Docks operation just across the Fraser River from New Westminster is supposed to add a coal-handling facility, but the project remains under a legal cloud.
Ride-matching behemoth Uber is being held up as one example of dynamic new services that Metro Vancouver mayors have ignored in their push for a sales tax hike to expand public transit.

Transport ‘revolution’ could make transit obsolete: think tank

Fraser Institute says Uber-like choices overlooked by Metro Vancouver transit plan, critic says math doesn't work

Ride-matching behemoth Uber is being held up as one example of dynamic new services that Metro Vancouver mayors have ignored in their push for a sales tax hike to expand public transit.
Policing is one of the biggest costs in municipal budgets and it's the focus of audits of six B.C. cities promised by the Auditor General for Local Government.

Acting municipal auditor named to replace Ruta

Police cost probe of Surrey and five other cities among delayed AGLG audits

Policing is one of the biggest costs in municipal budgets and it's the focus of audits of six B.C. cities promised by the Auditor General for Local Government.
Sean Jacob Lee Jennings (left) and Peter Blake Edmonds, both of Edmonton, are charged in connection a murder in Richmond and a home invasion in Surrey last fall.

Alleged Edmonton gangsters charged in Richmond murder, Surrey home invasion

Alberta crime group's rampage included brutal home invasions, extreme violence and intimidation, police say

Sean Jacob Lee Jennings (left) and Peter Blake Edmonds, both of Edmonton, are charged in connection a murder in Richmond and a home invasion in Surrey last fall.
Sturgeon fishing on the Fraser River in 2014.

Sturgeon poaching prompts night fishing ban

Conservation officers plan patrols on Fraser River to protect ancient fish that grows to immense sizes

Sturgeon fishing on the Fraser River in 2014.
Richard Bullock is chair of the Agricultural Land Commission.

Cities may take on farmland enforcement

ALC chair urges Metro Vancouver municipalities to fight illegal dumping, truck parking on ALR farmland

Richard Bullock is chair of the Agricultural Land Commission.
Average debt-service ratio for Vancouver from 2000 to 2014.

Unaffordable home prices to ripple across Metro Vancouver

Only Langley will be 'affordable' by 2030: Vancity real estate report

Average debt-service ratio for Vancouver from 2000 to 2014.

Fentanyl death toll high in Langley

18 Langley residents died because of overdosing on a drug laced with fentanyl, compared to 15 in Surrey.

Distrust of TransLink continues to be the dominant reason for a commanding No side lead in the transit referendum, according to a new poll.

Two-to-one No lead in transit referendum: Poll

Angus Reid survey finds 61 per cent of Metro Vancouver voters likely to vote No, compared to 27 per cent Yes

Distrust of TransLink continues to be the dominant reason for a commanding No side lead in the transit referendum, according to a new poll.
Are you ready for the transit plebiscite?

Are you ready for the transit plebiscite?

Ballots are being mailed out to registered voters this week and must be returned by May 29.

Are you ready for the transit plebiscite?
Looking up the Port Mann Water Supply Tunnel below the Fraser River from the Surrey side.

Drilling to resume on stalled Metro Vancouver water tunnel for Surrey area

$240m project to ensure drinking water flow survives earthquake

Looking up the Port Mann Water Supply Tunnel below the Fraser River from the Surrey side.
Mike Buda, executive director of the Mayors Council on Transportation, gave reasons to vote 'yes' in the transportation referendum. He spoke at a forum in Langley Wednesday night.

Town hall meeting with Mayor Jack Froese over transit tax plans

The meeting will take place Monday from 7 to 8 p.m., and people can take part from home.

Mike Buda, executive director of the Mayors Council on Transportation, gave reasons to vote 'yes' in the transportation referendum. He spoke at a forum in Langley Wednesday night.
Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu, flanked by Surrey Fire Chief Len Garis (left) and New Westminster Police Chief Dave Jones (right) speaking Wednesday in favour of a Yes vote in the Metro Vancouver transit tax referendum.

Police, fire chiefs warn No vote gridlock risks lives

Emergency call times, drunk driving listed as public safety issues in transit tax referendum as chiefs endorse Yes side

Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu, flanked by Surrey Fire Chief Len Garis (left) and New Westminster Police Chief Dave Jones (right) speaking Wednesday in favour of a Yes vote in the Metro Vancouver transit tax referendum.
The transit plebiscite ballot that's to arrive in the mail in the second half of March.

Honour system to bar voters from reversing referendum votes

Elections BC says it's illegal to ask for new ballot to switch your vote in Metro Vancouver plebiscite on transit sales tax

The transit plebiscite ballot that's to arrive in the mail in the second half of March.
The province says it has a strategy in the works to deal with the problem of trucks clogging residential streets ane even farmland in Surrey and surrounding communities

Province eyes new truck parking zones

Transportation Minister Todd Stone promises new truck staging areas are coming near Deltaport, South of Fraser

The province says it has a strategy in the works to deal with the problem of trucks clogging residential streets ane even farmland in Surrey and surrounding communities
Marvin Hunt (left) is BC Liberal MLA for Surrey-Panorama and a former Surrey city councillor, Metro Vancouver board chair and TransLink board director. At right, Transportation Minister Todd Stone.

Liberal MLAs scold ‘erroneous’ No claims on TransLink waste

Marvin Hunt, Peter Fassbender call Metro Vancouver's transportation authority well-run, say its critics are unfair

Marvin Hunt (left) is BC Liberal MLA for Surrey-Panorama and a former Surrey city councillor, Metro Vancouver board chair and TransLink board director. At right, Transportation Minister Todd Stone.
Retired broadcaster Bill Good hosted Thursday night's telephone town hall with Downtown Surrey BIA CEO Elizabeth Model and White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin. Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner connected by phone.

Mayors tackle referendum doubts via phone forums

Callers from South of Fraser, Tri Cities critical of transit service, unfair bridge tolls

Retired broadcaster Bill Good hosted Thursday night's telephone town hall with Downtown Surrey BIA CEO Elizabeth Model and White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin. Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner connected by phone.