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Trout Lake. Photo Vancouver Park Board Vancouver Coastal Health has deemed Trout Lake now safe to swim in, and three Vancouver beaches which were closed earlier this week are now safe as well.

The application to the Resort Municipality of Whistler proposes a massive overhaul of the long-vacant property, including a restaurant, patio and lounge on the main level, and eight bowling lanes, billiards, ping pong, foosball, skee-ball and basketball nets on the lower level.

Vancouver Public Library and V.I.A. have teamed up to help you discover new reads, hidden book gems and surprising literary finds. Check back every couple of weeks for the latest reading recommendations from the experts at Vancouver’s library.

Vancouver’s earliest remaining garage/service station could be knocked down to make way for a new development proposed for a land assembly on Fraser Street between East 22nd and 23rd avenues.

With the continued hot weather — and in a week when a man lost his life in Buntzen Lake — the Lifesaving Society BC and Yukon Branch is urging people to pay attention to water conditions and to know their own limits when recreating in local creeks, streams and at the seaside.

Northpaw Brew Co.’s Dennis Smit (head brewer), Will Armstrong and Courtney Brown.

The latest property transfer data from the B.C. Ministry of Finance, released at the end of July, indicates that foreign buyers have all but disappeared from the Lower Mainland.

The Good Creek fire in the Okanagan. Photograph By ISTOCK The pall of smoke hovering over the Lower Mainland is visible reminder that British Columbia is once again facing a state of emergency because of fires raging across the province.

Photo Shutterstock Millennials in British Columbia are spending more than they did last year on frozen desserts because YOLO and buying a house in Vancouver or elsewhere in the province is a faraway dream for most.

The cost to rent both one- and two-bedroom apartments remained flat in Vancouver year-over-year in August, according to new PadMapper data.