Interior wildfire smoke pushes Metro Vancouver to its worst August air rating since 2023
Environment Canada issued an advisory for the Lower Mainland on Sunday night, with fine-particulate readings four times the provincial…
British Columbia
Tunnelling ends on the Broadway subway, three months ahead of schedule
Crews broke through at Arbutus on Friday afternoon. Track laying begins in September, and the province is still promising trains in 2027.
Port of Vancouver clears its grain backlog after a three-week rail repair
Twenty-nine vessels were waiting at anchor at the peak. The last of them loads this week.
Fraser sockeye return is the strongest in twelve years, DFO says
Test fisheries near Mission counted 4.6 million fish through July. Biologists credit cool spring flows and four years of restricted…
Province tables tighter short-term rental rules before the fall session
The registry gets teeth, the platforms get liability, and the resort-town exemptions get one more review.
Province defers logging on 2,100 hectares in the Nass Valley
The deferral covers three cutblocks approved in 2019, and lands the question of long-term protection with a joint planning table that has…
The Mariners sign a homegrown keeper out of the Burnaby academy
Seventeen years old, raised eight blocks from the training ground, and handed a three-year deal the club calls a statement.
The valley's next decade will be decided by what it builds now
Housing, water, transportation and public space are converging into one defining regional question: how should the Okanagan grow?
The PNE's last summer on the old Hastings Park midway
The amphitheatre is built, the midway moves next spring, and the wooden coaster — as required by law, sentiment and engineering — stays…
A new era of water planning is arriving in the Interior
The basin's licences now exceed its dry-year supply. The plans being drafted this year decide who blinks first.
Kitimat's second LNG train clears environmental review
The certificate carries forty-one conditions, and the two that matter most are about electricity.