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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Three decisions that will define the fall session
A housing-target review, a water act amendment, and a health staffing formula — each arrives with a deadline attached.
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.
A new era of water planning is arriving in the Interior
The basin's licences now exceed its dry-year supply. The plans being drafted this year decide who blinks first.
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.
The regional stories that disappear when every issue is treated as local
A new reporting desk follows the shared systems connecting communities from Vernon to Osoyoos.
Where infrastructure and community planning meet
A dispatch from the province's fastest-changing resource corridor.
The five institutions quietly shaping land-use policy
An analysis of the boards and commissions that decide more about B.C. land than the legislature does.
Learning to see Okanagan Lake as shared infrastructure
An essay on the body of water that is reservoir, highway, habitat, backyard and myth at once.