The Province of British Columbia's announcement Monday that it's moving forward with a major dam project could mean new power lines running through Pemberton and Whistler. Read more…

British Columbians overwhelmingly support limits on what campaigns can collect and spend in municipal elections, according to a survey of 3,689 people conducted by the Vancouver advocacy group Think City in co-operation with Fair Voting BC. Read more…

Vancouver is poised to spend an extra $32-million to hold on to just half the housing legacy promised by boosters of the 2010 Winter Games. Read more…

The British Columbia agriculture and lands ministry considered and rejected the idea of protecting migratory birds by regulating light from greenhouses, the minister responsible Steve Thomson said yesterday.

“The lights have a huge social, health and environmental impact on the community,” said independent Delta South MLA Vicki Huntington. “The environmental impacts are far greater than just light pollution, because we live in a migratory bird flyway, so there are impacts on the waterfowl and on the raptors.” Read more…

The City of Vancouver's release of homelessness numbers last week was questionable, said Housing and Social Development Minister Rich Coleman.

“The methodology for this count wasn't according to how we would have done it or the timing we would have done it,” he said. “It's their count. Some people think they did it just to try to put pressure on me, and that doesn't work.” Read more…

A group of homeless residents of the Aboriginal Central Shelter said they will form a tent city if the Vancouver shelter closes on April 20 as planned.

"Nobody wants to live in a tent," said shelter resident Stuart Fraser. "Nobody wants to sleep in a park. We have no choice."

The Aboriginal facility is one of seven Vancouver homeless shelters housing more than 500 residents slated to close near the end of this month when the provincial government plans to stop providing operating funds. Read more…

The British Columbia government is contributing $2 million to the Capital Regional District's purchase of some of the land on Vancouver Island that the province released from public management three years ago. Read more…

Vancouver's homeless population has grown by 12 per cent since 2008, according to preliminary results of a citywide homeless census conducted last month.

The new numbers were released just days ahead of a provincial plan to close seven Vancouver shelters on April 30. In a memo to council, Vancouver City Manager Penny Ballem wrote, "Overnight, these closures will add approximately 500 people to those sleeping on the streets of Vancouver." Read more…

The province is hoping to get the new downtown casino through the City of Vancouver's rezoning process in the next eight months. But city types are already sending warning shots across the bow that they’re not just going to approve any old thing. Read more…

B.C. Housing filed a statement of claim today in British Columbia Supreme Court against the Downtown Eastside Residents Association, its housing society and its executive director Kim Kerr. Read more…

It won't be popular, but eliminating single-family zoning is key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Vancouver, says Mayor Gregor Robertson and one of the city's leading green architects. Read more…

More than 300 volunteers are spread throughout Vancouver today in an effort to learn more about the city's large homeless population. Read more…

Vision Vancouver, the political party that in 2008 banked more money from corporate and union sources than any other local party in British Columbia, will ask the province to ban corporate and union donations to local political campaigns. Read more…

Vision Vancouver, the party that in 2007 called for a ban on corporate and union donations to local political campaigns, is poised to back away from that position next week. Read more…

Emissions from cruise ships may be harming the health of some Victoria residents, according to a newly released air quality report. Read more…

The Capital Regional District will likely sell some of the land it has agreed to buy from Western Forest Products, said board chair Geoff Young. Read more…

The Capital Regional District has reached an agreement in principle with Western Forest Products to buy 2,350 hectares of land on southern Vancouver Island. Read more…

It's much harder now for the provincial government to come up with money to protect former forest lands on Vancouver Island than it would have been two years ago, said community and rural development minister Bill Bennett.

“We're trying within pretty difficult context for government,” said Bennett. “A couple years ago this might not have been, I'm sure it wouldn't have been, such a big issue." Read more…

If the provincial government fails to participate in plans to protect former forest lands on southern Vancouver Island, it may find itself facing major environmental protests on the outskirts of the provincial capital.

That's the assessment of Gordon O'Connor who has been working on the file for the environmental group the Dogwood Initiative. “When 'please' just isn't being listened to this community is going to have to find some other way to protect its resources,” he said. “We're running out of options.” Read more…

It's Premier Gordon Campbell and Prime Minister Stephen Harper jostling to be front and centre at the Olympic opening, but it may be Delta North MLA Guy Gentner who deserves the credit, or blame. Read more…