The majority of Vancouver’s park and beach parking lots will begin to reopen around the city today. In a statement, the Vancouver Park Board said the reopening includes 7,000 stalls in beaches and parks in Vancouver and the roadways at Queen Elizabeth Park.

Here are our picks for the best places to grab a hot dog in Vancouver.

Welcome to The Cit List, where we’ll be compiling some of the top events to check out in Vancouver this week. For a list of full events, check out our events calendar.

Construction on the first phase of the Grosvenor Ambleside mixed-use building with retail and upscale residential is nearing completion, and it is already making quite the mark on the immediate area in West Vancouver.

At long last, the Mobi public bike share network in Vancouver is set to make a big expansion westward into the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus.

Due to high demand, Vancouver’s Dinner With A View dining event has officially been extended. Described as “part pop-up restaurant, part oasis” Dinner With A View Vancouver will now offer guests service at Ambleside Beach in West Vancouver on the following dates and times:

For the 19th consecutive year, Pacific Great Blue herons are now nesting in a colony in Stanley Park — and people can catch all the action online or IRL.

Canuck Place Children’s Hospice hosted the 10th annual Adventure Race and saw over 130 participants race through the trails of Spanish Banks and Pacific Spirit Park, raising funds and awareness for BC’s pediatric palliative care provider.

Fire crews and police are currently on scene in Deep Cove, where a fire broke out at an apartment earlier this afternoon.

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On a magical Friday evening, I found myself being transported by vessel across the water to a brand new territory. Although my journey on the False Creek Ferries from the Aquatic Centre to the Maritime Museum was short, I was praised by a stranger on board for being brave enough to try stand up paddle boarding last week. And just like that, my evening was off to a fabulous start.

Editor’s note: This article contains images of a deceased shark carcass. The carcass of a nearly 10-foot-long Great White Shark was found on the shores of the St. Lawrence River in Pointe-Sapin, New Brunswick.

Good news everybody: the days of manipulating your way into an invite to a friend of a friend of a friend’s cabin are over. With the awesome Canadian-made website CottageCountry.com, anyone can rent their own cabin just as easily as they’d book a hotel room. Now we’re talking! To get you started, we’ve hand picked the five best places outside of Vancouver to rent a cabin this summer. After all, it’s t-minus one week to Victoria Day long weekend (but who’s counting):

You can still enjoy all of that sweet summer sunshine without breaking the bank.

This weekend certainly felt like an end to winter hibernation for many in Metro Vancouver. Beaches filled up, the Sea to Sky Highway was full of drivers looking for adventure, and a few brave souls even went swimming in the ocean. But those double-digit temperatures and sunny skies are only visiting the city for a short time.

A BC couple going on a walk together along a Delta beach unknowingly crossed into the US and back this month, and only realized they had done so when a local police officer stopped them.

Since its inception in 2008, the Canucks Autism Network (CAN) has provided community level support to B. C. families living with autism.

Any which way you look at Vancouver, things look very different than they did in the last century. We’ve explored the beautiful sweeping views from aerial photos of Vancouver from this day and age, but how about what was seen from above back several decades ago? Before Google Street View and satellites there were photographers hovering in small planes taking survey images of the land below–and, yes, you can spot some of the aircraft pieces in some photo perimeters! Can you spot your neighbourhood or favourite landmarks…or where those landmarks would end up being? Check out these vintage aerial views of Vancouver.