Karin Larsen

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Karin Larsen is a former Olympian and award winning sports broadcaster who covers news and sports for CBC Vancouver.

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'No more sides': Surrey mayor welcomes police force she opposed

Brenda Locke was elected in 2022 on a platform of retaining the RCMP in Surrey. But after 73 years in the city, the force has been replaced by the Surrey Police Service.

After years of divisive debate, Surrey Police Service replaces RCMP

The Surrey Police Service (SPS) took over from the RCMP as the city's police of jurisdiction at the stroke of midnight Friday, marking a major milestone in what has been a long and sometimes acrimonious journey.

Man accused of killing Tori Dunn makes court appearance in Surrey, B.C.

The man charged with killing Tori Dunn in her Surrey, B.C., home in June made a brief appearance in Surrey provincial court on Wednesday.

Vancouver police seek to increase 2025 budget to $434M

Proposed budget is a $23 million increase over the VPD's 2024 budget and will go to Vancouver city council for approval on Nov. 30.

Mounties announce one of the largest drug busts in Surrey RCMP history

Surrey RCMP searched locations in Surrey, Coquitlam, New Westminster, Vancouver and Richmond seizing significant amounts of cocaine, MDMA, methamphetamine and fentanyl.

B.C. man sentenced to life in prison for double murder of Kamloops brothers

Wade Cudmore was handed a life sentence Tuesday after being convicted of second-degree murder for the gruesome May 2021 killings of Kamloops, B.C., brothers Erick and Carlo Fryer.

How John Horgan found success mixing sports and politics

It's fitting that B.C.'s sports-loving premier was propelled to the province's top job thanks, in part, to a meetup at a rugby match.

Abbotsford, B.C., man guilty of trafficking in bear parts fined $8,600

An Abbotsford, B.C., man who was caught buying black bear paws and kneecaps in a sting operation pleaded guilty to charges under the Wildlife Act in Port Coquitlam provincial court on Wednesday.

Whitecaps player alleging sexual misconduct stunned to learn of coach's rehiring

Malloree Enoch alleges she was sexually coerced by former Whitecaps coach Hubert Busby Jr., who was recently reinstated as head coach of the Jamaican women's national team.

Man arrested in B.C. drug superlab bust once sold drugs out of his mother's car

Gaganpreet Singh Randhawa is the only person arrested so far in the Falkland, B.C., drug raid that yielded almost half a tonne of meth, fentanyl and cocaine.