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The vigil will take place Saturday night at Willows Beach, not far from the apartment where the girls were discovered.

Officers are asking for your help to find a woman who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and was last seen around 10:30 Saturday morning.

We are counting down to 2018 with Chef Bryan Satterford from Juke Fried Chicken. He’s hosting a special New Year’s Day event, where you can dive into a hearty breakfast.

Ring in 2018 with a bottle of bubbly. Earls Sommelier David Stansfield shares his top five picks at different price ranges.

Does your home feel empty without holiday decorations? Try filling the void with this low maintenance project from the experts at Gardenworks

Dec. 30 – If your home was built before 1990, you could be at risk of having asbestos in your walls. This week in Open House, Kaitlyn Herbst explains what you need to know before you begin to renovate or demolish your house.

According to Environment Canada, as much as 30 centimetres of snow fell along some parts of the Coquihalla since Thursday.

Heavy layers of ice have brought down trees and power lines.

Sure, 2017 may have seemed like a year where the world went off the rails. But it wasn't all bad.

Several Vancouver firefighters had an emotional reunion with a boy they thought had died 18 years ago.

BC Hydro crews are working to restore power to thousands of customers.

A pair of Prince George app developers has set their sights on getting more people to shop locally by developing a new app that helps surface home-grown businesses and events.

A new smoke-free policy for BC Ferries could be a difficult transition for some employees, says the union representing more than 3,600 workers at the company.

Two Vancouver pools won a last-minute reprieve late this year. But the Vancouver Park Board plans to phase out older pools, marking a potential end to an era of small, neighbourhood pools.

As 2017 comes to a close, many in B.C.'s interior communities are bidding farewell to a year that saw them flee their homes in unprecedented numbers. It's been months now since the flames have subsided, but the memories of the summer are never far from mind — and challenges remain.

More than 36,000 residents of southwest British Columbia, mostly in Mission and Abbotsford, are still without power three days after outages caused by downed trees and power lines.

Many residents in Abbotsford and Mission will have gone through a second night without electricity, after a winter storm earlier this week.

About 27,000 residents in southwest British Columbia and the Sunshine Coast were still without power as of 10:30 a.m PT Saturday.

B.C. Hydro says about 50 crews are actively working to restore power in the Fraser Valley and additional resources have been brought in from the Interior.

Police say Goldsmith stopped at a gas station near the highway in Chilliwack to ask for basic directions, which is unusual.

Police say Goldsmith stopped at a gas station near the highway in Chilliwack to ask for basic directions, which is unusual.

The forecast has kept some British Columbians on their toes with the weather varying from city to city in the metro region.

A four vehicle crash may have been caused by icy conditions Friday afternoon in Kelowna. RCMP say two people were sent to hospital.

The Kelowna Rockets’ Kole Lind got his twentieth goal of the season Friday night, as well as a hat trick, to beat the Kamloops Blazers.

Heavy snow wasn’t the problem at the Kelowna International Airport as much as the low clouds Friday. YLW saw 14 flights canceled, leaving many travelers stranded for the New Year’s Eve long weekend.

Judith Sayers says economic development can go ahead while respecting First Nations land rights and ways of life but those nations need to be involved in decision making.

Dispute erupts in Lions Bay after man cuts down numerous trees on his neighbours’ properties. Aaron McArthur has more on what the tree cutter describes as a “misunderstanding”.

Large crowds expected for New Year’s celebrations at the Vancouver Convention Centre. John Hua with what Vancouverites are planning and what you can expect to see at the big bash.

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The Friday, December 29, 2017 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.

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The evacuations were specific to individual homes, due to downed live wires, blown water mains and fallen trees.

Freezing Rain Warning in effect for Metro Vancouver while BC Hydro crews scramble to restore electricity to the Fraser Valley. Nadia Stewart has the latest from one of the hardest hit areas; Abbotsford.

New membership signup is closed, as the BC Liberals begin the final battle over who will replace Christy Clark as leader.

A protester was arrested at the Kinder Morgan tank farm in Burnaby early Friday morning, after police say he got inside a fenced-off area and pushed a security guard.

"Their shelter is desperately inadequate in weather like this, I mean there's really no way to protect against this well, living outside."

Fri. Dec. 29: Raw video of an ice storm that hit Abbotsford on Friday, causing trees and power lines to come down. Cars and plants are coated in a sheet of ice.

The Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society in Delta, B.C., says rat poison can seriously harm and even kill birds who hunt rodents.

The crash happened around 4:30 p.m. as the snow began to accumulate on icy roads.

Benjamin Wong, a clinical counsellor with the youth and family program at Richmond Addictions Services, said recognizing that gaming as an addiction is a crucial step toward treating it.

Despite the snow, Erin Kavaliunas rides her bike to work every day. She says parking options at the hospital are limited for staff, and transit isn't an option because most of her shifts start early or end too late for bus service.

“I couldn’t be any happier. He is a wonderful, wonderful person,” said Ken McFarland of his grandson.

The B.C. government is reminding revellers that drinking on party buses is illegal and also is asking those who plan to party on four wheels to make sure their for-hire limo or bus is properly licensed.

"Out of an abundance of caution, we've shut the road off completely, but as soon as we can confirm it's safe to open up some or all of the road we'll do that."

Thousands of customers are without power due to the ice storm.

Road upgrades planned for Highway 4 mean access to Tofino and Ucluelet will be restricted overnight for three months.

Investigators say Alexander Blanarou, 24, was the victim of a shooting in Abbotsford on Thursday afternoon.

An American Indigenous man's right to hunt in Canada has been upheld by a judge because his ancestors traditionally hunted in this country