Whistler

Buildout! The frantic pace of construction in Village North will come to an end next year — because virtually all of it will be built.

Whistler driven to excess Third in a series of stories on the growth of Whistler and other mountain resorts. These stories are intended to complement information found in the municipality’s monitoring program.

Whistler catching attention of other resorts The site of last weekend's annual general meeting of the Whistler Resort Association said as much about the state of the resort as anything any of the directors or members offered.

Incomplete Whistler Secondary School almost full The new Whistler Secondary School is not scheduled to open its doors until next fall, but Howe Sound School District administrators are already planning to expand the facility.

Number one in SKI, number one in Snow Country and now number one in Snowboard Canada. Actually, only Blackcomb has been rated number one; number one snowboard dream destination, according to the magazine.

Harvest moon RCMP take to the bush and the sky in search of pot plantations Pemberton RCMP are still searching for the farmer whose crop was harvested early last Thursday after discovering a marijuana grow in the bush somewhere near Pemberton.

Powder King Ski Village Ltd. near MacKenzie is up for sale, according to the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen Inc., following an order by the Supreme Court of British Columbia appointing the firm as receiver/manager.

Intrawest goes Snowshoeing Intrawest, parent company of Blackcomb, continued its expansion into the mountain resort business with the announcement this week it has an agreement with Tokyo Tower Development Corp.

Shipping "residual" solid wastes to a Washington landfill and closing the Squamish and Whistler landfills are two of the key recommendations the SLRD is making in its plan to reduce solid waste by 50 per cent by the year 2000.

Second edition of Survival Guide released How to keep the peace with your landlord, a recipe for a cheap but nutritious meal, the consequences of skiing out of bounds and the location of the one public washroom in the village are some of the perils a