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No. 66 Fraser Valley Express. (BC Transit)
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Fraser Valley Express bus to SkyTrain Lougheed Station to launch in March 2022

BC Transit delayed the route's launch due to a lack of bus drivers.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 9, 2021
Downtown Vancouver perspective looking east towards suburban communities. (Shutterstock)
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Lower Mainland's far-flung suburbs no longer a source for more affordable homes

The home price "canyon" gap between Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley is now a "creek."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 9, 2021
Fallen tree on University Boulevard falling the storm on November 6, 2021. (TransLink)
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University Boulevard access for UBC campus still closed from storm damage

Downed trees and trolley poles and wires necessitate TransLink bus detours.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 8, 2021
Vancouver Chinatown Storytelling Centre (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Vancouver Chinatown Storytelling Centre shines light on Chinese Canadian legacies (PHOTOS)

A new cultural centre in Chinatown that showcases Chinese-Canadian heritage.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 7, 2021
Artistic rendering of the temporary modular supportive housing building at 2520-2640 Smith Street, Richmond. (BC Housing)
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Construction to begin on homeless modular housing near Bridgeport Station in Richmond

The $8.6-million structure with 40 beds will reach completion in Spring 2022.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 6, 2021
Retrofit progress in October 2019 of the first Harbour Air ePlane. (Harbour Air)
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Harbour Air receives $1.6 million from BC government to advance battery planes

Harbour Air is aiming to fully convert its entire fleet to electric-battery planes.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 6, 2021
Vancouver skyline (Shutterstock)
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This year's BC home sales expected to exceed 2016's hot market record

2021 will break BC's real estate records, but the pace of growth will slow down in 2022.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 6, 2021
Artistic rendering of the Esso gas station at 3205 Arbutus in Vancouver redeveloped into a mixed-use development. (Yamamoto Architecture)
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Rental homes proposed to replace Esso gas station at Arbutus Street and 16th Avenue

Another gas station in Vancouver will disappear for redevelopment.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 6, 2021
Concept rendering of the development of Southwest Granville Loop in the Broadway Plan. (City of Vancouver)
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City of Vancouver proposes development of Southwest Granville Loop

A looping road at the south end of Granville Bridge could be demolished for development.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 6, 2021
Artistic rendering of 5562-5688 Manson Street, Vancouver. (DA Architects & Planners/Mirage Management)
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Nearly 400 rental homes proposed in two towers next to Oakridge-41st Avenue Station

20% of the units are below-market rental housing, and a childcare facility is included.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 5, 2021
4% of the Challenger Map of BC at Vancouver Convention Centre. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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You can now see the Challenger Map of BC at Vancouver Convention Centre

A giant piece of the historic map can now be viewed at the convention centre.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 5, 2021
November 2021 artistic rendering of the Broadway Commercial Safeway redevelopment at 1780 East Broadway, Vancouver. (Perkins&Will/Westbank/Crombie REIT)
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Revision downsizes Safeway redevelopment proposal at Commercial-Broadway Station

Height reduction and fewer homes for Metro Vancouver's busiest transit hub.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 5, 2021
Artistic rendering of a road overpass crossing above the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway, replacing the Beecher Street at-grade main road crossing to serve Crescent Beach. (City of Surrey)
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City of Surrey proposes road overpass for busy railway at Crescent Beach

Residents and beachgoers are trapped when trains stop at the existing road crossings.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 5, 2021
Single-family detached house in Vancouver. (Shutterstock)
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BC government to introduce "cooling-off periods" for resale and new home sales

Just like the existing policy for pre-construction condo sales.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 5, 2021
Proposed skyline within the Broadway Plan, November 2021. (City of Vancouver)
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Vancouver's Broadway Plan densification adds 50,000 residents and 42,000 jobs

A new secondary city skyline, with towers up to 40 storeys near future SkyTrain stations.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 4, 2021
Exhibits on the third floor of Royal BC Museum that will be removed for decolonization. (Royal BC Museum)
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Royal BC Museum to remove settler galleries to begin process of decolonization

An entire floor of popular exhibits on European settlement in BC will be permanently removed.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 4, 2021
Revised 2021 design of the new building for the Vancouver Art Gallery at Larwill Park. (Vancouver Art Gallery)
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Vancouver Art Gallery receives historic donation of $100 million towards new building

Vancouver Art Gallery is aiming to start construction on the landmark building in 2022.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 4, 2021
Zillow (Shutterstock)
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Zillow axes home-flipping business after losing $381 million

Zillow entrusted an algorithm that unintentionally kept overpaying homes.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Nov 4, 2021
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