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9/9/2010
Strange apartment fire
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
An apartment building balcony in the 800 block 8th Avenue in Vancouver caught fire just before 12:30 Thursday morning. Firefighters setup command at 8th and St. Catharines only to learn that the fire consisted of some clothing left on the balcony. Fire fighters quickly extinguished the fire. Just ...
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9/9/2010
Congratulations
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
For a few hours Wednesday night, Cecilia Garcia was probably the most wanted woman in the City of Vancouver, and she's no criminal. The 61-year old hairdresser from Kitsilano is the winner of this year's 1.2 million dollar PNE Prize Home. Problem was, she didn't know that until 10 ...
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9/9/2010
New cyclist numbers
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
With roughly 60-thousand cyclist trips in the City of Vancouver each day, some riders are bound to break the rules. CKNW decided to get a rough idea of just how many are. Of the 262 cyclists who rode by our un-scientific survey location next to the Dunsmuir bike lane and ...
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9/9/2010
Legislative Committee adjourns until Monday
VICTORIA/CKNW(AM980)
A Legislative Committee that will decide what to do with the successful Fight HST Petition will hear from BC's Acting Electoral Officer next Monday on the cost of a possible referendum on the tax. The Committee's only other option is to send the petition directly to the Legislature for a ...
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9/9/2010
Children's Farmyard back on the agenda
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
The future of the Stanley Park Children's Farmyard will be high on the agenda at Thursday's Vancouver Park Board Committee meeting. Staff will update the Committee on whether any suitable business proposals from private operators looking to take over the attraction have been found, "If staff recommends to go with ...
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9/8/2010
Transit - Day 2
Vancouver/CKNW(AM980)
  Yesterday may have been the first official day of school, but today is the real test for the transit system. Many university students don't actually have class on the first day because of first-year orientation. So today it is busier at the Broadway Skytrain Station where most people have ...
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