Although it was cool enough for a dusting of fresh snow on the hills above Deroche, passions heated up the community hall below, as Lake Errock residents voiced their opposition Tuesday night to a proposed gravel mine in their neighbourhood.
People who want to learn more about the city`s plans for Jim Lorimer Park can attend a public open house on April 29 at Willingdon Community Centre.
The open house, scheduled for between 6:45 and 8:30 p.m., will allow people to view the plans for the park just off of Gilmore Avenue and Dawson Street.
Some Chilliwack landlords are finding themselves stuck between a rock and a rental place.
Asai Wu-Brandt owns a house in the city that she rents out, but she is getting nothing but grief from tenants who won`t pay the rent, and who are allegedly dealing drugs out of the residence.
Port Coquitlam councillors expressed concern Monday night over zoning bylaw changes that would allow the former Lincoln Elementary to be used by the B.C. Christian Academy.
While council didn`t take issue with a private school operating out of the former public school site, the issue was whether schools including kindergarten through Grade 12 are within the scope of existing zoning.
ICBC invested $56,000 in safety improvements at high-crash locations in Delta last year.
Launched in 1989, ICBC`s Road Improvement Program works in partnership with municipalities and the provincial government to make roads safer. In 2007, ICBC helped fund approximately 300 projects and engineering studies in 73 communities across the province.
It has a long and bitter history but changes could finally be coming to the Southlands.
More than two years in the making, a unique process of public consultation and involvement that`s never been seen before in B.C. has moved the 538-acre Tsawwassen property, owned by the Century Group, possibly closer to development than any previous proposal.
British Columbia Transmission Corporation (BCTC) is proposing to build a 500-kilovolt transmission line that will run next to an existing line through Golden Ears and Pinecone Burke provincial parks, as well as the Pitt Polder Ecological Reserve and adjacent to the Pitt-Addington Marsh Wildlife Management Area.
New Westminster city council will soon consider a proposed heritage revitalization agreement that sparked the resurgence of the Queen`s Park Residents` Association.
The city has received an application to rezone 340 Fifth St. to allow the property to be subdivided into two lots. The applicant hopes to keep the existing house and to relocate a house at 506 10th St. to the newly created lot.
The challenges of urban transportation today are more complex than they have ever been.
The costs of building and maintaining roads, sidewalks, trails, bike routes and mass transit are huge.
The costs for the individual families of buying, maintaining, insuring, and fuelling the automobiles that are at the centre of North American "car culture" are also steep.
THE doors are closed, the windows are boarded up and the grass in the playground of the heritage Lonsdale School has overgrown.
If the North Vancouver school district`s plans get approved, the building will be demolished to make way for a new administrative building, and market and non-market housing.
Despite the presence of run-down, ramshackle vacant properties that have a tendency to catch fire when inhabited by squatters, a city staff report says the city has the tools to deal with problem properties in transition neighbourhoods.
"Neglected buildings can be prone to unauthorized occupation, unsightliness, vandalism, criminal activity, health concerns and fire hazards," according to a city staff report on problem properties.
Surrey politicians and a city staffer will be jetting off to China to promote trade.
Mayor Dianne Watts, Councillor Linda Hepner and economic development officer Donna Jones will visit Surrey`s sister cities, Zhuhai and Ningbo, in June.
The sister-city visit will be combined with a trade mission to Beijing led by Western Economic Diversification, a federal program aimed at promoting economic development of Canada`s western provinces.
The saga of Delta`s migrant farm worker housing bylaw continues.
After meeting with representatives from the Delta Farmers` Institute Monday, Delta council reconsidered the bylaw and passed second reading at its meeting later that day.
Civic politicians decided to proceed with the legislation as it was originally presented, which would allow a maximum of 42 migrant workers to be housed on a farm operation.
When the parks board approved the design of Emery Barnes Park in 2001, the proposal included a plan to eventually double the size of the tiny downtown urban oasis.
Seven years later, it looks like that`s finally going to happen, says parks board commissioner Spencer Herbert.
"I`ve been hearing from residents saying, `I seem to remember this park was supposed to be twice the size,`" said Herbert. "They want to know what`s happening."
First quarter traffic count ranks Kelowna as 9th busiest airport
The first quarter of 2008 proved to be the busiest in the history of Kelowna International Airport, with March being the busiest month ever.
A total of 379,335 passengers used the Airport in the first three months of this year compared to 361,128 for the same quarter last year, an increase of 18,207 passengers or five per cent. March brought 129,243 passengers compared to last year`s record breaking 128,040, an increase of 1,203 passengers.  
"The guy who uses a big amount of water pays the same as the guy who keeps his water down to a minimum."
— Cliff Kanester
Greater Vernon residents will be paying more every time they turn on the tap.
The Greater Vernon Services Committee approved changes to the water rates bylaw Thursday, including a 5.5 per cent increase for residential, industrial, commercial and institutional customers.
A Naramata director says he expects a public hearing on a major development in rural Osoyoos will be an "eye opener" for the director representing that area.
"I think your eyes are half shut on this one," Tom Chapman told director Mark Pendergraft, regarding the 1,088-home $900 million Willow Beach subdivision that is proposed for a 29-hectare lot on Osoyoos Lake.
