A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.
The 8,000 square foot multi-million dollar Vancouver Island Mountain Centre sitting on the slopes of Mount Washington, at the edge of Strathcona Provincial Park has opened to much praise. Designed through collaboration between the Vancouver Island Mountain Sports Society and CEI Architecture, it is intended to bring together the Island’s diverse communities to celebrate all things outdoors.
Great news for White rock residents as a year-to-year comparison recently released by the RCMP reveals that the overall crime rate in White Rock dropped 16% in 2011 from the year before.
Although a tax raise in hardly welcome, at least homeowners in Coquitlam can be happy that they have the smallest increase of residential tax levies in the Tri-Cities.
TransLink aims to open a new and presumably tolled Pattullo Bridge by 2018 and it now wants public comment on design options.
The two-year consultation process getting underway is shaping up to be a tussle between Surrey and New Westminster over how big a bridge is needed.
A bit of good news for homeowners and first time buyers as Finance Minister Kevin Falcon found money in his restraint budget Tuesday to boost home building and renovations.
Issue surrounding our garbage continue with Metro Vancouver chopping the size of a new waste-to-energy plant it intends to build to help consume the region’s garbage and stop sending garbage for landfill in the Interior.
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