A growing number of people are trekking to Lynn Headwaters Park, in North Vancouver, B.C., to fill up jugs of fresh spring water from a pool at the bottom of a steep slope. With quotes from Len Clarkson, a water specialist with VCH.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is just one of many standing up and saying (VCH’s) Insite needs to remain open.

“The auxiliary has a proven track record of demonstrating its commitment to all of the residents of Powell River with the major contributions it has made to the hospital over the years as well as its donation to the Willingdon Creek Village facility.”

Lower Mainland residents want mental-health care to remain a central component of a redeveloped Riverview grounds in Coquitlam.

A new cellphone tower built just behind a townhouse complex in South Richmond without warning has raised the ire of an area resident. With mention of VCH’s Lions Manor care home.

In the first nine months of 2014, 232 non-residents delivered babies at Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Health Care hospitals, the majority in Richmond. This accounted for nearly six per cent of all births.

Providence Health Care employee Elena Cernicka is named as one of three people who died in an ice-climbing accident near Pemberton.

Researchers around the world are unlocking mysteries of the brain and causes of mental disorders in a “quiet neuroscience revolution” that, some say, will transform the way mental illness has been diagnosed and treated for the past 50 years. With quotes from Dr. Anthony Phillips, chief neuroscientist at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and a VCH/UBC physician.

St. Paul’s Hospital is making plans to train hundreds, if not thousands, of people to eat according to the principles of the life-saving Mediterranean diet. With quotes from Dr. Andrew Ignaszewski, head of cardiology.

More than 200 restaurants in Metro Vancouver were forced to temporarily shut down in 2014 for violating Public Health Act regulations. Mentions 117 restaurants covered by VCH being forced to temporarily close.