A former police chief who has advised Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum about transitioning local RCMP to a municipal force says the move could take longer than the mayor plans.

Surrey's new mayor isn't wasting any time getting to work on his two biggest campaign promises — scrapping the city's plan for a $1.65-billion LRT line and replacing the Surrey RCMP with a municipal police force.

Stewart, elected as an independent, oversees a council where no party has a majority.

Cindy Fortin was re-elected mayor of Peachland, B.C. on Monday, after her name was picked out of a box following a judicial recount that ended with a tie vote.

A new bridge and better transit options are required to ease the city's traffic congestion, George Harvie says.

An unofficial recount shows incumbent Cindy Fortin and challenger Harry Gough each with 804 votes.

Fred Haynes says Saanich was looking for a new approach, and he discussed how he plans to handle key issues in a conversation with All Points West host Robyn Burns.

After two-and-a-half years, the North Okanagan-Shuswap School District has a board of elected trustees. The previous board was dismissed en masse by the province in 2016 over what it termed financial troubles and a loss of public confidence.

Vancouver was far from the only close race — and far from the closest.

Doug McCallum says he aims to meet his two key promises within two years: a new local police force to replace the RCMP and scrapping the already-approved LRT and building SkyTrain instead. But that could be hard to do.

Two days after Vancouver's municipal elections, former Non-Partisan Association (NPA) mayoral candidate Ken Sim has conceded the election.

"I think the people who got elected are very conscious of the responsibility they’ve been given not to make us a laughing stock but to restore the reputation this city deserves."

More than half of Vancouver residents are people of colour, but nine of 10 newly elected councillors appear to be white.

While Mike Hurley will be the city’s next mayor, he faces a council dominated by Derek Corrigan's party — the Burnaby Citizens Association.

For Sharmarke Dubow, a former refugee from Somalia, the Victoria municipal elections over the weekend were a groundbreaking day — he cast a vote for the first time and was elected city councillor.

This is the first municipal vote in B.C. since new campaign finance rules were implemented that limit corporate and union donations. It also saw big change in some Metro Vancouver cities.

Few Lower Mainland cities saw more than 40 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots this weekend to decide their new local governments, according to preliminary election results.

Kennedy Stewart says the 19 cannabis outlets that have played by the city's rules should be given preference under the new legal framework.

"We're pleased that, overall, communities around the province rejected these candidates," says Glen Hansman, president of the B.C. Teachers Federation.

For the past 10 years, Vancouver has been led by Mayor Gregor Robertson and his municipal party, Vision Vancouver. But last night, that unified approach changed when independent candidate Kennedy Stewart and a mish-mash of three parties took power.

For the first time in more than three decades, Vancouver has elected an independent mayor, choosing Kennedy Stewart from a crowded field of contenders.

Former firefighter Mike Hurley has won the race for mayor of Burnaby.