Michaels arts and crafts store closing on Alberni Street in downtown Vancouver
The major two-storey retail location is permanently closing.
175 rental homes in 12-storey tower proposed near SkyTrain's Renfrew Station
If built, it would be the first tower in the area of Renfrew Station.
Potential routes for Chilliwack-Vancouver-Whistler high-speed rail: UBC study
It could create more affordable housing options.
Growing number of Canadians migrating to BC by U-Haul during COVID-19
The spike in the Lower Mainland is as high as 32%.
Metro Vancouver home sales set new record in December with 53% spike
And more homes were sold in 2020 than in each of the last two years.
Surrey and South of Fraser home sales break December records with 81% surge
The last six months of 2020 saw heated activity.
Interim CEO named for TransLink ahead of Kevin Desmond's departure
Desmond is returning to the US for new opportunities.
Assessed home values in Metro Vancouver see spike in latest BC Assessment
Almost every area of Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley saw increases.
BC Transit retiring North America's first double-decker transit buses after 20 years
They will be replaced by new double-decker buses in 2021.
BC government spending $6.5 million on new Lower Mainland bike lanes
This includes improvements leading to the Lions Gate Bridge and in UBC.
BC public school to receive Canada's first-ever tsunami evacuation tower
Instead of a 10-km drive to the safe evacuation zone.
5 km of Marine Drive in Vancouver set for reconstruction in two-year project
Expect delays; construction begins in the first week of 2021.
Jollibee to open its second location in Metro Vancouver in new building
The Asian fast food giant is expanding 🍗
New haul rope for Sea to Sky Gondola manufactured at "record speed"
It arrived in Canada just before Christmas.
TransLink to dismantle LED real-time next bus digital displays along Main Street
27 digital signs at bus stops on Main Street will be retired.
First Nation in Metro Vancouver will finally have clean drinking water in 2021
They have been under a boil water advisory since 2005.
70% of BC residents support seizing mobile devices of repeat distracted drivers: survey
And over half would like to see distracted drivers suspended for a year.
BC Ferries' new LNG-fuelled Salish Class vessel enters water
This is BC Ferries' fourth Salish Class vessel.