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GORD HOEKSTRA Vancouver Sun A woman tried to ensure her common-law husband had a little entertainment in jail by throwing him a bag of pot while he was in court.

VERNON — A man charged with dangerous driving causing death has been found guilty of the crime that ended the life of a 22-year-old woman as she walked along a highway near Vernon.

METRO VANCOUVER - The turnaround came at about 2 p.m. Tuesday, when a helicopter searching for a snowboarder lost in the North Shore mountains since Sunday morning spotted fresh tracks in the snow.

VANCOUVER - The final report into the failures that allowed Robert Pickton to remain at large for so long has revived a decades-old debate about whether there should be a regional police department in the Vancouver area, one of the only major cities

VANCOUVER - The families of Robert Pickton's victims have received public confirmation of something they already knew to be true: if their daughters, sisters and mothers weren't poor, drug-addicted sex workers from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, many

VANCOUVER - Families of women believed murdered by serial-killer Robert Pickton welcomed the massive inquiry report into the police bungling that allowed the pig farmer to continue killing, saying wearily they hope it will lead to positive change.

VANCOUVER — More research animals at the University of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ were subjected to moderate to severe distress in 2011 than during the previous year, according to statistics released by UBC.

VANCOUVER — Much of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ lies under the cover of darkness. Phones have gone silent, roads have split and sewer lines are spewing their contents to the surface. Some buildings are still swaying, others have partially collapsed.

Const. Adrian Oliver was speeding without his sirens or emergency lights on at the time of a head-on collision that killed him last month, according to an ongoing Surrey RCMP investigation.

VANCOUVER — The closest thing Marilyn Renter has ever had to a trial for her step-daughter's death is the public inquiry into the failures that allowed a serial killer to target sex workers from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.