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Local government and BC Ferries are in preliminary support of an idea to redistribute ferry vouchers to allow Lower Mainland youth sports teams to travel to the Sunshine Coast on discount.

The judicial recount of West Vancouver’s election results cost the municipality just more than $30,000. But the two people who requested the recount will not be asked to pick up any of the costs.

Ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft will be allowed in British Columbia by the fall of 2019, but they will be operating in a market so tightly controlled, critics question whether they’ll be able to thrive.

60 applications received on first day

In one of its first major decisions, the new District of North Vancouver council has shot down a below-market housing project that had been in the works for more than two years.

North Van may become first city in region to take bicycle sharing electric

Winter has fallen on the trails of the North Shore mountains - and so have a lot of ill-equipped hikers. North Shore Rescue is asking anyone headed into the bush to be prepared for slippery and potentially dangerous conditions.

Well, shame on us for wanting Uber and Lyft. The BC NDP government has shown our demands to be unnecessary.

Ride hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft will be allowed in British Columbia by the fall of 2019, but they will be operating in a market so tightly controlled, critics question whether they’ll be able to thrive.

The province says it’s making progress on the 108 recommendations from the independent review of the 2017 wildfire and flood seasons, including more cooperation with First Nations, but recommendations that could see more resources for local fire depa