Cover Stories

How Green Is My Valley? Travel the Valley Trail to find out Photography and story by Christopher Woodall There's something about the Valley Trail that grabs your essential juices. It's not an obvious sensation that strikes right away, of course.

The Housing Sweepstakes Changing demographics, increasing demands raise new questions about employee housing By Bob Barnett "Employee housing.

On the trail of the Red-Breasted Sapsucker By G.D. Maxwell "Cheer Up. Cheer Up. Cheer Up" Outside my window, the red, red robin — no doubt the early bird of metaphor — admonished me to a state of mind still hours away.

Bus ride to the end of an era By Stephen Vogler I'm running up the steep gravel road from the Tyrol Lodge as the school bus rounds the corner to our stop on Alta Lake Road.

By Bob Barnett Twenty years ago Whistler’s first Official Community Plan was prepared, with the emphasis on developing a central, compact village at the base of Whistler Mountain’s Olympic Run.

By Bob Barnett Four months ago the NDP were dead in the water. The Nanaimo Commonwealth Society investigation was hanging over the party, Mike Harcourt was hanging over the party and the Liberals were at the top of the polls.

By Christopher Woodall There's a movie set in the good ol' boy Deep South of the United States where this judge asks a rookie Brooklyn lawyer with an accent problem, "Yoots? What are yoots?" The lawyer is defending two "youths" up on some hocus-pocus

Health care centre had humble beginnings Medical attention in Whistler during the early years of the resort was rather limited, to say the least.

Mountains of casualties Whistler’s health care centre can resemble a MASH unit By Don Anderson Easter Sunday, April 7, 2 p.m. Whistler Health Care Centre, Emergency Ward Boy, is it quiet. Extremely quiet.

Drunks, thieves, animals and other medical emergencies In the past six years Dr. Andrew Hamson has met up with a variety of injured and surly drunks, and he readily offers a few not-too-specific yarns of humility, if asked.