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Artistic rendering of the Tall Timber Student Housing tower at BCIT Burnaby. (Perkins&Will/BCIT)
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Construction begins on BCIT Burnaby's 12-storey mass timber student housing tower

When complete in 2024, it'll more than double BCIT's on-campus student housing.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 15, 2023
Tunnel boring machine Elsie arriving at the Millennium Line station pit at Broadway-City Hall Station on April 14, 2023. (Government of BC)
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First tunnel boring machine arrives at Broadway-City Hall Station

The first tunnel boring machine is now approaching the halfway point to Arbutus! šŸš‡

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 15, 2023
Artistic rendering of the bus-priority road design changes for Scott Road near the interchange with 72 Avenue, next to Strawberry Hill Shopping Centre. (TransLink)
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Construction begins on $33-million road upgrade for R6 Scott Road RapidBus

9 km of bus-only lanes on Scott Road and 72 Avenue ahead of the 2024 launch šŸš

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 15, 2023
Propane tanks found in the Hastings Street encampment in the Downtown Eastside in early April 2023. (Vancouver Fire Rescue Services)
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Number of reported assaults, fires, and overdoses drop following Hastings decampment

The City says it will remove any returning tents and structures to prevent the encampment's reformation.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 14, 2023
TransLink CEO Kevin Quinn at SkyTrain's Lougheed Town Centre Station. (TransLink)
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Criminals are unwelcome on Metro Vancouver's transit system: TransLink CEO

"Everyone has the right to feel safe on transit."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 14, 2023
Studying/Shutterstock
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17 great places to study at UBC

Hit the books.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 14, 2023
The new replacement building for Bayview Community elementary school at 2251 Collingwood Street, Vancouver. (Fast & Epp)
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New mass timber elementary school opens in Kitsilano in Vancouver (PHOTOS)

A new $25-million elementary school with a unique mass timber design 🌲

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 14, 2023
Queen Elizabeth School Annex at 4275 Crown Street, Vancouver. (Google Maps)
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Vancouver School Board to explore selling Westside school site

This 4-acre school closing this summer is worth over $46 million.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 14, 2023
A typical City of Burnaby bus shelter design for a TransLink bus stop. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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City of Burnaby to install up to 370 new TransLink bus stop shelters

This includes 50 new TransLink bus shelters by the end of 2023 šŸš

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 14, 2023
Clean energy kiosk for film and television production mobile trailers under the Georgia viaduct in Northeast False Creek. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Vancouver to install a network of up to 20 electric hook-ups for film productions

This reduces Hollywood North's dependence on noisy and polluting diesel generators āš”ļø

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 13, 2023
Palm Island and the Dubai skyline. (Creative Family/Shutterstock)
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Air Canada to launch frequent non-stop service linking Vancouver and Dubai

A new year-round service linking Vancouver and Dubai āœˆļø

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 13, 2023
Tesla Delivery Centre at 901 Great Northern Way, Vancouver. (Google Maps)
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18% of new car sales in BC in 2022 were electric-battery models

If it seems like there are more Teslas on the road, the statistics back it up āš”ļø

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 13, 2023
Public electric-battery vehicle charging station in Vancouver. (Shutterstock)
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BC government sets aside $26 million for 250 new EV charging stations

There are now about 4,000 public charging stations across BC āš”ļø

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 13, 2023
Artistic rendering of The Steller at 7388 Southwynde Avenue, Burnaby. (Metro Vancouver Regional District)
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Metro Vancouver Regional District receives provincial support to build 2,000 affordable homes

This includes $158 million in provincial funding for the first five projects.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 13, 2023
BC Transit double-decker bus in Victoria. (Shutterstock)
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BC Transit launches first RapidBus route serving Victoria

Running between downtown Victoria and Langford up to every seven minutes šŸš

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 12, 2023
Rooftop of the former Rennie Museum and offices at 51 East Pender Street In Vancouver's Chinatown, the future home of the Chinese Canadian Museum. (Office of Mcfarlane Biggar Architects and Designers)
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Additional $10 million in provincial funding for new Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver's ChinatownĀ 

This brings provincial funding for the new museum in Vancouver's Chinatown to about $50 million.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 12, 2023
Construction progress on the HAVN spa facility on the barge, as of April 2023. (@themackenzielife/HAVN)
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Havn: Floating spa destination on barge in Victoria Inner Harbour to open in June

A permanent luxurious floating spa destination is coming to downtown Victoria šŸ‘€

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 12, 2023
Preliminary conceptual rendering of the north parcel of the redevelopment of the Army & Navy department store in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, with the heritage West Cordova Street facade and stepped office tower shown. (Michael Green Architecture/Arcadis IBI Group/Army & Navy Properties/Bosa Properties)
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Offices, rental homes, and retail eyed for Army & Navy Vancouver redevelopment

A transformative project to bring new life to Gastown and Downtown Eastside.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 12, 2023
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