The valley's next decade will be decided by what it builds now
Housing, water, transportation and public space are converging into one defining regional question: how should the Okanagan grow?
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Why smaller B.C. cities are rewriting their growth plans
The provincial density rules were written for big-city transit corridors. The cities redrawing themselves fastest are the ones without any.
What the province's new investment map reveals
Plotted on a map, the capital projects tell a different story than the press releases: the money is moving inland.
Interior communities make the case for local fibre
Six mills have closed in three years. The towns around them want the logs that remain processed where they fall.
Grid planning becomes a kitchen-table issue
Heat pumps, EVs and new industry are arriving faster than substations. The utility's ten-year plan is suddenly everyone's business.
Where infrastructure and community planning meet
A dispatch from the province's fastest-changing resource corridor.
Why the next round of local budgets will look different
Insurance, RCMP contracts and asset renewal are eating the room that used to absorb quiet years.