Justin McElroy

There are 386,016 natural lakes in British Columbia, according to the provincial government, which actively monitors 53 of them — while volunteers help monitor about 36 more. 

Travel to a popular lake in British Columbia, and chances are you’ll encounter a beach, some boats — and a tale about some sort of unidentified creature that lurks beneath the surface.

In interview after interview with CBC News, residents from Scotch Creek, Lee Creek and Celista have voiced frustration over how the Bush Creek East Fire, now measured at more than 400 square kilometres, has been handled.

At this stage of the massive wildfire in the Shuswap region of B.C., the most anxious developments lately have nothing to do with the flames.

With B.C. still dealing with a series of massive wildfires that have displaced thousands of people in the Okanagan and Shuswap, an opposition MLA is calling on the province to explore policy changes that could help in future seasons.

Lobbying takes all shapes and forms at an event like the UBCM, from formal press conferences to receptions at the end of the evening.

It’s been a busy few weeks of the government taking action (or promising to take action) on issues municipalities have been complaining about for some time. At this year’s Union of B.C. Municipalities Convention, both sides had a lot more to gain by playing nice.

Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon announced the exact numbers for net new units in the 10 municipalities on Tuesday, months after the province first said those communities would be targeted as part of the government’s push for additional housing supply.

The federal government abruptly postponed an announcement Tuesday for tens of millions of dollars in housing funding for two Metro Vancouver cities, due to concerns about new development fees being proposed by the regional district.

For the first time since Vancouver council created a code of conduct, the mayor has used it to file a complaint against a fellow councillor — but it didn’t go the way Ken Sim likely hoped.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says although month-over-month home price increases cooled in September, more homeowners are listing properties and the composite benchmark price for the area is just over $1.2 million, a 4.4 per cent increase compared to September 2022.

The concerns from residents who showed up generally centred around parking and noise for a residential three-block street in the middle of Port Coquitlam without any sidewalks.

Unlike the rest of British Columbia, the people who will vote on the local land-use plan aren’t a mayor or councillors, but a board of governors — the majority of whom are appointed by the province.

With policing being the biggest department in Surrey’s budget, and Locke and the province engaged in a constant war of words, few other political stories in the city have gotten much attention in the last year.

Mayor Ken Sim says he will bring forward a motion to ask the province to change the Vancouver Charter so the city’s independent, elected park board can be removed and its responsibilities shifted to council.

Since it was created in 1888, the Vancouver Park Board has been a source of discussion and division. But the decision by Mayor Ken Sim to try and eliminate it could make its final chapter its most dramatic.

Among the reasons cited by Metro Vancouver for the increased budget were higher construction costs, an increase in parking area and bike storage lockers, and an increase to the size of a child care facility.

A man working with an Egyptian contractor posted the ships on Facebook Marketplace, hoping to get $15 million for the three ships — a fraction of the $460 million it cost to build them.

The AAP might be somewhat convoluted, but it stems from provincial rules over what local and regional governments are allowed to do.

Vancouver Park Board commissioners have voted to pass a staff report clarifying “appropriate” swimwear at the city’s pools.