Opinion

The outcome of the U.S. presidential primaries was supposed to be Hillary Clinton, the wife of an ex-president, vs.

Being both a biologist and an avid ski-tourer, I seldom find myself skiing over an ice-covered streams or pond without giving thought to what lies beneath — how do the animals that live in and around water bodies and spend such a large part of

My grandparents came here from Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. Although it would be a one-way trip, the perilous journey across the Pacific was worth the risk. They left behind extreme poverty for a wealth of opportunity.

In the Himalayan aerie of Tengboche, en route to Everest Base Camp (EBC), we visit its venerable monastery. Built in 1913, destroyed by a 1934 earthquake, rebuilt, lost to fire in 1989 and rebuilt again, it's famous in climbing lore.

Cater to all tastes I am writing in response to letters published in Pique concerning vegan-only food in the Raven's Nest on Whistler Mountain.

You could be forgiven for wondering if Whistler was part of the U.S. last weekend as we hosted a very busy Martin Luther King Day long weekend.

The first part of the trail to Everest is all dogs, chickens, dung and broken rock — and that's just leaving Lukla airport.

Bigger, better signage needed? I read Alison Taylor's editorial on Jan.

Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Germany's doors to a million refugees and migrants last year — three times as many as the rest of the European Union put together.

It was mid-afternoon on a blustery early spring day at our Vancouver Island farm several years ago when my mom inched her papery fingers along the feather-light bed covers to find my hand.