Malcolm Sidhu gets behind the wheel of his hybrid taxi after meeting with NDP leader Carole James Tuesday. Cab driver Uriel Levi says the only way he could shrink his carbon footprint any more would be to swap his Toyota Prius for a rickshaw.

This is a current photo of Shyanne Dawn Carto. The 10-year-old girl is missing, according to her mother, after the father Jason Yank did not return home Monday with her as he advised after leaving at 3 p.m. RCMP Const.

A multi-million dollar expansion planned for Maple Ridge’s main fire hall will turn the dated building into a beacon for green technology. The $7-million expansion, slated to start this summer, will add 13,022 sq. feet to the existing 9,736 sq. feet of hall No. 1.

Regional District of Central Kootenay area J director Gordon Zaitsoff said he is opposed to having an abattoir built in Ootischenia.

Song of remembrance: Members of the Splatsin First Nation sing in honour of ancestors slain at the mouth of the Eagle River. Photo by Lachlan Labere Ancestors slain at the mouth of the Eagle River honoured in ceremony.

More than four years after police put the brakes to a driving school scam in which drivers paid for their licences, the school's owner has pled guilty in court.

The province unveiled plans Tuesday for a new Surrey-based International Cybercrime Research Centre that will aim to safeguard B.C.’s public sector computer network against criminal activity.

This is a photo of Shyanne Dawn Carto when she was age three. The 10-year-old girl is missing, according to her mother, after the father Jason Yank did not return home Monday with her as he advised after leaving at 3 p.m. RCMP Const.

Word of the death of Diana O’Brien, a model from Salt Spring on an assignment in Shanghai, is taking a toll on the local community that knew her well.

Michael Levy is suing the security firm at the Surrey dance hall where he was attacked, as well as his attackers, the dance organizers and the owner of the dance hall.

Cab driver Uriel Levi says the only way he could shrink his carbon footprint any more would be to swap his Toyota Prius for a rickshaw.

A drama at nightfall on Monday evening left a Langley RCMP officer with a serious knee injury. It was suffered in a violent scuffle with a suspected motorcycle thief, who also tried to throttle him.

He had a twisted nose and tattoos on both shoulders. He wore black, wire-frame glasses and black sandals with a yellow design on the sole. And somehow this white, man, around 45 years old, wound up dead at the bottom of a steep embankment in Sumas Regional Park near Mission.

A Monday night brawl at a Market Street apartment saw a 12-year-old youth wielding a machete and one person taken to hospital. Police were releasing few details about the fight Tuesday morning.

Metro Vancouver wants residents to choose tap water instead of bottled water. Metro Vancouver's simmering war on the plastic water bottle is about to heat up again.

A Quesnel police officer has been charged with one count of assault. RCMP Cpl. Steven Chin was called in off duty Dec. 16 as the datamaster technician to conduct a breath analysis on Tony Adams.

Bob Ackles, the B.C. Lions' long-serving president and chief executive officer, died Sunday morning of a heart attack at the age of 69. At approximately 9:30 a.m. Mr. Ackles, who spent the weekend in Snug Cove aboard his boat, was on his way to buy a newspaper at the Bowen Island General Store at the time of his death.

The School District 27 board brought its $55.9 million operating budget for 2008-09 in just under the wire Thursday to meet the June 30 deadline for filing with the Ministry of Education.

Photos replace legislature murals BC Local News • Jul-07-2008 The Hanging Judge is gone. Wall murals at the B.C. legislature depict… more West Van family worried about missing nanny North Shore Outlook • Jul-07-2008 West Van police are searching for a live-in nanny last seen on Sunday.

About 440 employees will lose their jobs when the Elk Falls pulp mill permanently shuts down Nov. 30. "We know this decision will be difficult on employees and their families," Catalyst president and CEO Richard Garneau said in a news release.