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Workers vote to give union reps a strike mandate at three more downtown Vancouver hotels

The votes came more than two seeks after workers at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia voted 84 percent to give the same union local a strike mandate.

Photos: the Araxi Longtable Dinner Series 2019 at Pemberton's North Arm Farm

North Arm Farm is a 60-acre organic working farm that has hosted the long-table dinner since 2011.

Amnesty International issues travel warning to those visiting United States due to ongoing rampant gun violence

One of the world's leading human rights organizations says people should think about contingency plans when passing through America.

Male suspect arrested for luggage theft at Vancouver International Airport

Investigators and YVR Security are working to determine if he was working alone or if he had any accomplices.

LGBT in B.C.: Pender Island to launch its first Pride parade and festival

One of the Southern Gulf Islands is about to join the Pride party-train with its inaugural event.

Updated: tourist couple from North Carolina and Australia found murdered in northern B.C.

Two individuals found murdered earlier this week on a B.C. highway were tourists from abroad.

In the darkness of night, Vallea Lumina returns to Whistler's coastal temperate rainforest

There's more to Whistler at night than Garfinkel's.

La Mezcaleria heads to Bowen Island for a long-table dinner at heritage Home Farm

A fiesta in a field.

Plan for ultra-high-speed rail from Vancouver to Portland makes sound business sense, analysis finds

From Vancouver to Seattle in less than one hour is a ticket that a lot of people in both cities would find very appealing.

Table-side dining in Whistler runs the gamut from classic steak and salads to tomato-gin soup

Would you like a side of theatrics with your meal?

Clear-air turbulence, linked in past to climate change, injures 37 people on Air Canada flight that left Vancouver

The Sydney-bound plane diverted to Honolulu.

Okanagan's Mission Hill Family Estate winery named one of the World's Best Vineyards

Georga Straight readers know a fine winery restaurant when they see it.

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