The dancers covered their ears and stepped back as the fire crackers snapped, signalling the opening of the first spring festival gala in Vancouver’s Chinatown. 8 hours ago | The Vancouver Sun |  
Surrey MLA Jagrup Brar's attempt to spend January living on the $610 welfare rate for a single employable individual has succeeded in getting people talking about the adequacy of... 8 hours ago | The Vancouver Sun |  
A group of Richmond residents opposed to the creation of a 15-kilometre jet fuel pipeline to YVR airport via the Fraser River protested the controversial plan on Saturday. 9 hours ago | CTV |  
About a dozen protesters gathered outside a Richmond community centre Saturday to voice their opposition to a proposed jet fuel pipeline. 10 hours ago | CBC |  
An extensive clean up is underway at a BC Hydro substation near Chilliwack, east of Vancouver, after a fire engulfed the structure Friday. 11 hours ago | CBC |  
City
Vancouver police are searching for a missing woman who suffers from Alzheimer's disease 1 hour ago | The Vancouver Sun |  
Interim Liberal Party leader Bob Rae says the gaps in education, health care and housing between First Nations communities and other Canadians are an embarrassment. 5 hours ago | CBC |  
Police in Surrey are looking for a man in his mid-twenties after he tried to sexually assault a woman in a parking lot at Central City mall. 6 hours ago | The Vancouver Sun |  
Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae criticized what he characterized as the Harper government's non-collaborative approach to federalism, which he said can be seen in its policies on... 6 hours ago | The Vancouver Sun |  
Mounties in Surrey, B.C., are warning residents to be vigilant after a 42-year-old woman was sexually assaulted Friday evening. 7 hours ago | CBC |