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New app aims to improve backcountry safety

New app aims to improve backcountry safety

AdventureSmart app comes with trip-planning feature
Pemberton students to build housing and learning opportunities

Pemberton students to build housing and learning opportunities

Sea to Sky school district proposes student construction project
SD48 sending projected kindergarten enrolment numbers to ministry

SD48 sending projected kindergarten enrolment numbers to ministry

Next school year's registration due mid-February
Going batty in Burrvilla

Going batty in Burrvilla

B.C.’s largest bat colony is flourishing in Deas Island heritage house
Idea pitched for upscale backcountry huts between Cypress and Squamish

Idea pitched for upscale backcountry huts between Cypress and Squamish

A Vancouver architect is floating plans for a series of staffed huts in the backcountry giving long-distance hikers a chic place to rest on a trek from Cypress Provincial Park to Squamish.
‘At risk’ of losing light-industrial space

‘At risk’ of losing light-industrial space

Squamish council is considering putting limits on business park
Throne speech promises to hold line on ferry fares

Throne speech promises to hold line on ferry fares

The Horgan government’s throne speech highlighted fare freezes and reductions at BC Ferries as one of the ways the NDP minority has been “reducing costs and fees,” but didn’t offer any hints about whether it would continue beyond the end of fiscal ye
Squamish hoping to keep local workers local

Squamish hoping to keep local workers local

Four-hundred-eighty local food and accommodations workers commute
SLRD to apply for tenure of Crown land in Britannia Beach

SLRD to apply for tenure of Crown land in Britannia Beach

Since Macdonald Development has been unable to buy the land, it has been forced to redesign its development
Watch this daredevil rat take on a group of sledders (VIDEO)

Watch this daredevil rat take on a group of sledders (VIDEO)

A video has surfaced of a rat crashing wildly into a sled on a snowy hill in Victoria