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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — B.C.’s restrictions on non-essential travel have cut Lower Mainlanders off from Vancouver Island and the Okanagan, and mayors of popular tourist spots within the Vancouver Coastal region are worried they might see an influx of visitors. The new restrictions combine B.C.’s five health authorities into three regions of the province, with travel between these regions prohibited. The Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health regions have been combined into one zone. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said Friday the new order targets recreational and leisure trav...
Image Credit: SUBMITTED / Wikimedia Commons April 03, 2021 - 7:30 AM If you're a regular motorist on the Coquihalla Highway, you probably love it for the high quality engineering of the road that allows you to cruise at modern highway speeds, unencumbered by traffic, to and from the Lower Mainland to the Okanagan or Kamloops. But you probably have other thoughts during the winter, when metres of snow and ice pile up on the Coquihalla summit, making the roadway below a dangerous and difficult drive. Actually that can and often does happen virtually any month of the year o...
Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Amanda Cowper March 14, 2021 - 8:00 PM A Princeton family is feeling the pressure of the town’s less than 1% rental vacancy rate as they desperately search for a home that’s big enough to support them. Amanda Cowper, her fiancé and their six children are currently living in a home that is not meeting their needs and was intended to be temporary. “We’re considering moving all of family, interests, all of our investments, all of our future... (in) Princeton because we can’t live here anymore because there’s nowhere for us to live,” she ...
January 26, 2021 - 4:10 PM A new townhouse development at Sun Peaks Resort sold out in the first 48 hours sales opened. A&T Project Developments is set to start construction on the 40 home project "Altitude" in the spring, but it's too late to get your hands on one. At a combined sales value of $27 million, the plan did attract 95% of its buyers from within Canada, according to Gary Reed, vice president of sales and marketing at A&T Project Developments. This emphasizes that Sun Peaks offers "premium recreational property," he says in a press release. READ MORE: "This i...