Whistler

After almost a year of negotiations and legalities, B.C. Rail has agreed to refrain from spraying herbicides along the rail line in environmentally sensitive areas of Whistler, from Function Junction to the top of Green Lake.

Spud Valley temporarily became the Land of the Rising Sun last week as a group from Pemberton’s Japanese sister city visited the area on a cultural exchange.

Backcountry Advisory Just when we all thought that summer had kicked in early with a vengeance, Mother Nature dumped 20 cm of low density new snow on the mountains on May 28 and 29.

By Bob Brett, Whistler Naturalists It’s not often I get to use one of my favourite words: liliaceous. Great word, huh? It doesn’t just categorize members in the lily family, it makes them sound so, well, luscious. And luscious they are.

Paradata Systems Inc., the Whistler online payment solutions company mushrooming out of its Function Junction offices, has now spread its tentacles to Germany.

It was mostly board members in attendance at the Tourism Whistler annual general meeting held on Wednesday, May 16, the evening of the provincial election. But the 6,000 Tourism Whistler members not present didn’t miss anything new.

Twenty-five Squamish Nation youth last week got a day in the woods and a look at what a career in the forestry industry might look like, courtesy of International Forest Products, the timber company that owns the majority of forest tenures in the Squ

Peak season occupancy declines Intrawest says skier numbers at Whistler-Blackcomb were down over last year but the number of paid room nights in Whistler broke the 600,000 mark for the first time this past winter season.

Against a backdrop of teacher protests three local schools – Myrtle Philip elementary, Valleycliffe elementary and Pemberton secondary – have come through the provincially mandated accreditation process with what looks like flying colours.

ICBC study does not address volume If a gambler were to assess the odds and place bets on the driver least likely to get killed or maimed while driving Highway 99, he might put his money on a female, over the age of 65, behind the wheel on a foggy Tu