A high school track runner's detour near Long Island train tracks led to skeletal remains that police believe may belong to a 79-year-old grandmother with dementia, missing since December. Her family has already identified clothing found at the scene; DNA testing will confirm it.
— via NY Post, Zoe Hussain
A new stove can quietly trigger a full kitchen renovation: that's how lifestyle creep works, one small upgrade feeding the next until spending quietly resets to match whatever you earn. Financial planners explain why prevention beats cutting back, and where savings fit into the fix.
— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author
A Burlingame post office built in 1941 was physically relocated 120 feet in 2023, then reopened as a 90-seat restaurant centered on a tableside duck dinner capped at six orders a night. The $40-per-person bird is dry-aged 10 days, dipped in maltose, and roasted in a custom oven that rotates six ducks at once.
— via Hoodline, Eric Tanaka
Geno Smith's completion rate cratered from 75.5 percent through three games to 53.3 percent against Chicago, and the Jets ran a franchise-low 32 plays while going 0-for-7 on third down. A bizarre four-play first quarter set the tone for a 23-12 loss that left even his coach admitting the throws were off.
— via NY Post, Brian Costello
One Vancouver building housed a mystical order devoted to "the laws of the universe" before becoming a house in 2019. Five former churches across the city now hide in plain sight as homes, community hubs and heritage sites, with one tied to Hogan's Alley and the city's historical Black community.
— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author
Hundreds of texts and emails, released after a court forced the city to produce them, show Mamdani aides coordinating with Rent Guidelines Board members more than 100 times before the panel froze rents. One aide reviewed speaker lists and got a draft of the board's final statement a day before public testimony closed.
— via NY Post, John Ketcham
A Milpitas business park could become 791 homes, with Toll Brothers swapping office space near Coyote Creek for apartments, townhomes and detached houses. Construction could start in 2028, but no architect, financing or affordability details have surfaced yet.
— via Hoodline, Emily Johnson
Three months after its Port Moody debut, Nova Kitchen & Bar lands on Lonsdale in the old Browns Socialhouse spot, steakhouse cred intact but the menu wandering into gochujang chicken and Thai curry. A columnist's verdict: the calamari beats the steak.
— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author
A 29-year-old with four prior felonies allegedly shot six people over one weekend and killed a 23-year-old nearly a year earlier, all before Richmond logged its lowest murder count on record. Police still don't know why, and shootings spiked 163% in the year's final quarter.
— via Hoodline, Emily Johnson
David Eby wants the top 3.88 per cent of earners to pay more, with new brackets hitting incomes above $190,405 and a fresh 24.5 per cent rate for anyone clearing $1 million. The BC NDP says it would raise $1 billion a year by 2028/29; critics warn it will chase doctors out of the province.
— via Daily Hive Vancouver, Kenneth Chan
A federal THC ban delayed to Dec. 11 could wipe out a hemp industry worth billions, with one report projecting $28.3 billion in lost retail revenue and 225,000 jobs gone. The proposed 0.4-milligram cap is so strict it would even outlaw non-impairing CBD lotions.
— via PBS NewsHour, Gene Johnson, Associated Press
Reginald Newkirk died Sunday at Kings County Hospital, a day after a medical emergency while held on a drug possession charge in East Flatbush. He's at least the sixth person to die this year after a medical crisis in NYPD custody, and deaths before arraignment escape the public review that follows Rikers deaths.
— via Gothamist, Ryan Kost
Nearly 22,000 Vancouver residents voted on the first day of advance balloting, a 196 per cent jump from 2022. The city nearly tripled voting locations after long lines plagued last year's by-election, and mail-in requests are already topping the last election's full total.
— via Daily Hive Vancouver, Kenneth Chan
A plague institute worker in Siberia died of "pneumonia of unknown cause," and officials insist none of the pathogens she handled are to blame. A hospital is now quarantined, contacts are being monitored, and unconfirmed reports point to pneumonic plague, a severe form that spreads person to person.
— via PBS NewsHour, Associated Press
Six months after Lynette Hooker vanished off a dinghy in the Bahamas, the Coast Guard has seized the couple's sailboat and sent evidence to the FBI lab at Quantico. Her mother now says she believes Lynette made it back to the boat before foul play occurred, while her husband Brian lives quietly in California, uncharged.
— via NY Post, Fox News
A stalled Montclair apartment project is restarting under a 30-year tax break, with just 10.8% of its units affordable, well below the town's 20% rule. Planning staff say an older site-specific plan legally overrides the newer standard, and two council members voted no anyway.
— via Hoodline, Fiona Doyle
David Eby says a re-elected NDP would add a new tax bracket for anyone earning $1 million or more, with proceeds going toward health care. He gave no specifics, promising details later Sunday in Victoria, as the full slate of candidates for Oct. 24 locks into place.
— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author
A new survey of 1,011 NFL fans finds 41% of tailgaters now call themselves sober or sober-curious, citing fitness and money savings as motivators. Yet Allegiant Stadium stocks zero non-alcoholic beers despite 254 sports bars nearby, while Lumen Field offers eight.
— via NY Post, Andrea Palladino
Starting Monday, Utah adults can get an acne prescription from an app that scans their face, no doctor required, a first for the country. Oversight tapers fast: after the first 100 patients, physicians review prescriptions weekly, then just 10% a month, a lighter-touch rerun of Utah's bruising Doctronic chatbot fight.
— via Hoodline, Ella Richardson
