News We’re Following
Here we share the news stories we’ve found that matter to Blueridge residents in one way or another. Each month these become the Newsworthy column in the latest issue of the Blueridge Bulletin, our monthly subscription email.
Also note that sometimes we track major stories on our homepage.
If you have a news story to suggest, please submit it to bulletin@blueridgeca.org and we’ll take a look. Thank you!
Latest News Stories:
Starting in September, stories start with the date they are added. Those marked red are the most recent.
- Sep 5: Jazz Aviation flight attendants vote in favour of strike mandate
- Sep 2: 2026 General Local Election
- Sep 2: Metro Vancouver weather: Fall forecast warmer, drier than average
- Sep 2: Unifor escalates job action at Coast Mountain Bus Company over unsafe running time
- Metro Vancouver Leadership Change
- Sep 5: Metro Vancouver Announces Leadership Transition – press release from Metro Vancouver
- Sep 5: Metro Vancouver parts ways with chief administrative officer
- R2 Bus Route Extension to Metrotown begins September 7, 2026
- Fire News
- North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Sep 2: Coquitlam mayor sues Metro Vancouver for alleged defamation following data breach
- Sep 1: Outgoing Coquitlam mayor sues Metro Vancouver for defamation – related to the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant
Published in the August 2026 Blueridge Bulletin:
- Police urge safe and respectful behaviour ahead of grad sleep-outs – RCMP press release
- TransLink’s one-seat RapidBus ride between Park Royal and Metrotown starts early September – on September 7th, specifically
- Off-leash dogs a major risk in human-bear conflicts, experts say
- North Vancouver father fined over 12-year-old son’s E-scooter ride – this didn’t happen in our neighbourhood, but parents need to know the rules
- Why Do We Feed Wildlife?
- Request a free street tree – part of the DNV’s Urban Tree Canopy Project
- State of emergency: Here’s how you can help people affected by B.C. wildfires
- How to test your lawn for grubs and what to do if you find them
- More digital ads coming to North Vancouver bus stops
- Why North Vancouver’s Roche Point Park isn’t really a park
- West Van council to reluctantly vote on province’s housing density bylaw – SSMUH is coming to West Vancouver, and could be forced on the DNV as well
- Oil tankers arriving in Vancouver in record numbers
- [Daina] Boyd announces bid for North Vancouver District Council seat
- Hiker stung dozens of times by wasps, North Shore Rescue says – they’ll be around our homes as well
- DNV adopts new detached residential zones for single-family properties
- Busy bear season prompts renewed calls to keep garbage bins clean
- Off-Road Vehicles on Crown Land
- Update: Squamish dirt bikers and ATV riders cleared to return to Crown land
- Off-road vehicles banned on Squamish Crown land due to wildfire risk – despite the headline, this ban applies to all Crown lands in the Coastal Fire Centre, which includes our area
- Water Restrictions
- Water restrictions move back to stage one on Sept. 1
- Region to Move from Stage 2 to Stage 1 Water Restrictions on September 1 – Metro Vancouver press release
- Bear Activity
- August 22nd Storm and Fire
- West Vancouver declares small wildfires near Sunset Beach under control
- ‘Never seen anything like it!’: Locals share electrifying videos, photos of Vancouver thunderstorms
- Vancouver’s weekend storm was the biggest lightning event recorded in the city
- Lone Tree Creek Fire Information (Sunset Beach in Lion’s Bay)
- Metro Vancouver community of Lions Bay issues evacuation alert due to wildfire
- Once-in-a-decade thunderstorm grounds flights, cuts power, ignites wildfires in B.C.
- Intense storm brings power outages and travel woes to parts of B.C.
- B.C. storm causes new wildfires, airport delays after more than 7K lightning strikes
- Update: Wildfire near Sunset Beach in West Vancouver under control
- What fuelled one of Vancouver’s most remarkable storms in years?
- Chemtrade Rezoning
- North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Air Quality Warnings
- Metro Vancouver lifts air quality warning as wildfire smoke reduces
- Air Quality Warning Ended – it was in place from Aug 3 – 7
- Yellow Air Quality Warning remains in effect for North Shore
- Air Quality Warning – Fine Particulate Matter and Ground-Level Ozone – from Metro Vancouver, Aug 6
- North Shore under Yellow Air Quality Warning
- Air Quality Warning – Fine Particulate Matter – from Metro Vancouver, Aug 5
- Belcarra Wildfire
- There are many wildfires burning in the BC interior at the moment, but this is by far the closest. See this map for more information on other fires.
- Coquitlam RCMP asks public for information, video after Belcarra Regional Park fire
- Belcarra Regional Park Wildfire Response – update 4 from Metro Vancouver; fire now listed as held
- Belcarra Regional Park Wildfire Response – update 3 from Metro Vancouver
- Belcarra Regional Park Wildfire Response – update 2 from Metro Vancouver
- Metro Vancouver wildfire prompts evacuation alerts as Fraser Canyon residents go home
- Wildfire burning in Belcarra Park near Village of Anmore – update 1 from Metro Vancouver
- Other Wildfires
- Restricted area established around Bald Range wildfire
- Wildfires surge in B.C. as province records 11,000 lightning strikes
- Wildfire crews fight weather, terrain on growing blaze near Summerland, B.C.
- With 500-plus structures damaged or lost, B.C.’s fire season is among the worst
- Wildfire season tracking to be 4th worst on record; fire risk remains elevated
- Okanagan residents return to what’s left after scale of wildfire destruction comes to light
- Bald Range wildfire damages or destroys 150 structures
- B.C. wildfires being exploited by bad actors, Russian operatives, profiteers
- More evacuees can return to Summerland as long road to recovery awaits many
- Traffic management ‘challenges’ as more Summerland residents allowed home
- North Shore firefighters tasked to fight B.C. wildfires
- Some Summerland residents return home as evacuation order partly lifts
- What to know about the Bald Range fire and B.C.’s wildfire emergency
- Highway reopening shows parts of Summerland, B.C., unscathed in fire evacuation zone
- ‘Hearts are heavy’: Popular B.C. resort closes due to major wildfire
- Before and after photos show home, music venue lost to B.C. wildfire
- Favourable forecast to help firefighting efforts, but Bald Range fire still out of control, officials say
- Mexican reinforcements arriving for wildfire fight in Summerland, B.C.
- B.C. wildfire evacuees told to brace for devastation, as RCMP launch criminal probe
- Explosive Wildfire in British Columbia Leaves 1 Dead – it’s not often these stories make the New York Times
- Okanagan fires offer a glimpse of a worsening wildfire crisis
- B.C. wildfire showing little new growth after forcing thousands to flee
- ‘Explosive’ Summerland wildfire creating conditions ‘never seen before’
- Recap: B.C. declares state of emergency, RCMP investigate ‘potential fatality’ from wildfire
- 20,000 flee as explosive B.C. wildfire races toward Summerland, burning homes in path
- Officials urging British Columbia residents to obey wildfire evacuation orders
- Evacuations underway as new Okanagan, B.C., wildfire explodes in size
- Evacuation orders expand into Peachland as entire community of Summerland flees wildfire
- Transit Strike
- Unifor members reject Coast Mountain Bus Company offer with job action set for August 17 – from Unifor
- Transit workers in Metro Vancouver and Victoria serve 72-hour strike notice – this is still only a uniform ban for the moment, set to begin on Monday, August 23rd
- Unifor members reject Coast Mountain Bus Company offer with job action set for August 17
- Metro Vancouver Workers Strike
- Metro Vancouver outside workers halt job action with agreement on arbitrator
- Metro Vancouver, workers agree to binding arbitration for resolving dispute
- Metro Vancouver transit workers begin job action
- Metro Vancouver workers picket projects linked to planned harbour dredging
- Update: Metro Vancouver Statement on GVRDEU Strike – also from Metro Vancouver
- Update: Metro Vancouver Statement on GVRDEU Strike – from Metro Vancouver
- Metro Vancouver workers renew job action, citing sewage spill and stalled talks
- WestJet Strike
- WestJet flight attendants vote 90.2% to ratify new three-year collective agreement
- WestJet flight attendants wrap up vote on tentative deal
- What travellers should know about navigating WestJet strike disruptions
- WestJet flight attendants win 18% wage hike, new perks after strike
- WestJet says all scheduled flights operating Wednesday after work stoppage
- WestJet flight delays expected to last days despite strike ending
- WestJet flight cancellations tapering off as airline ramps back up after strike
- More WestJet flights are cancelled at YVR following the strike. Here’s what to know
- WestJet strike ends after tentative deal reached
- WestJet flight attendants on strike as union, airline fail to come to terms
- The latest: WestJet flight attendants go on strike
- WestJet cancels 81 flights ahead of possible flight attendant strike
- Were you planning to fly WestJet? What you need to know about the looming strike
- Can you get covered for cancelled WestJet flights? Here’s what Vancouverites should know
- WestJet begins grounding planes, Vancouver flight cancellations loom. Here’s what to know
Published in the August 2026 Blueridge Bulletin:
- Inside North Vancouver’s newly opened $230-million Harry Jerome Community Recreation Centre
- District of North Van OKs sweeping changes to single-family homes
- Heat warning issued for North Shore – For June 22nd
- DNVFRS Annual Report 2025 is now available
- District of North Vancouver approves chlorine plant extension after rejecting it 3 months ago
- Update: B.C. commits to keep Squamish-100 Mile House rail corridor public
- Risk of landslides near District of North Vancouver homes decreasing, report finds
- North Shore ‘Golden Girls’ program aims to get seniors sharing homes
- More EV charging now available across the District – including new chargers at Parkgate
- Notable moments in the history of Canada Day
- Bridge Over Lynn Creek
- Upcoming Local Election
- Are you registered to vote?
- [DNV Councillor Catherine] Pope announces re-election bid for DNV council
- Metro Vancouver Restructuring
- B.C. government to ‘consider’ Metro Vancouver board’s move to cut directors
- Tight security bars public at Metro Vancouver board meeting with CAO absent – in this meeting, there was a vote on how to distribute the proceeds of the NSWWTP lawsuit settlement. The article says a motion to disburse all proceeds to the North Shore was defeated, but does not directly say what the end result was.
- Metro Vancouver Boards Approve Changes to Board Size and Structure – Metro Vancouver press release
- Chemtrade Rezoning
- Developments Near the V7H postal code
- North Van council votes 6-1 for Maplewood affordable housing
- DNV council to consider approval for Riverside Affordable Housing – This was approved in Council on July 13th
- DNV council to vote on adopting 46-unit townhouse rezoning for Mount Seymour Parkway – at the corner of the Parkway and Riverside Drive
- Wildfire Preparedness
- The Emergency Apps You Need for Wildfire Season
- The Science Behind BC’s Fire Danger Ratings
- Community Connect – from the DNV; allows residents to provide information about occupants and issues in a home so an emergency response can be more effective
- B.C. urges residents to pre-register for emergency support as wildfire activity increases
- Urging people to pre-register with Emergency Support Services – from the province; allows preregistration for emergency support in the event of a wildfire
- Wildfire News
- Updated: Pemberton wildfire again being held
- More B.C. communities under threat of encroaching wildfires
- B.C. wildfires force closure of 2 major highways linking Lower Mainland, Interior
- All Boston Bar residents ordered out as new wildfire erupts
- Major highways shut amid plea for Fraser Canyon residents to flee wildfires
- BC Wildfire Service braces for heat peak, warns of potential new starts
- New fast-moving fire triggers urgent call to evacuate Boston Bar, B.C.
- Here are the latest numbers on British Columbia’s wildfire season
- B.C. wildfire tally surges past 100 as lightning transforms fire season in a flash
- Boston Bar blaze destroys more homes as B.C. wildfire numbers spike
- Wildfire activity jumps again overnight after lightning strikes across B.C.
- Crews work through night on B.C. wildfire as evacuation orders hold
- Nervous times in Pemberton, B.C., as residents watch fire fight from their backyards
- Wildfires tick up as lightning flickers across southern B.C.
- As Fire Looms, the View from Inside a Tiny Town – about the Boston Bar fire
- Photos: Signal Hill wildfire in Pemberton
- Expert questions whether Lower Mainland’s forest-edge towns are ready as fire nears Pemberton
- Campfire ban coming to much of B.C. starting tomorrow – July 16, 2026
- Cedar Hedges ‘Go Up Like a Roman Candle’ During Wildfires
- Wildfire prevention starts with all of us – from the DNV
- Water Use Restrictions
- Metro Vancouver returning to Stage 2 water restrictions – on Thursday, July 16th
- First Narrows Crossing Back in Service, Stage 2 Water Restrictions in Effect Starting July 16 – Metro Vancouver press release
- Coquitlam council blasts Surrey for leaving the region high and dry on water use
- North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Dredging Second Narrows
- Strike News
- Air Canada
- Flair Airlines
- WesJet
- Deadline nears on WestJet flight attendants strike threat
- Air Canada offers help for travellers ahead of possible WestJet strike, flight cancellations
- Were you planning to fly WestJet? What you need to know about the looming strike
- WestJet flight attendants’ union serves airline 72-hour strike notice
- WestJet, flight attendants sign wind-down plan ahead of possible strike
- Vancouver flights could be cancelled over busy August long weekend during possible WestJet strike
- WestJet offers customers chance to make changes ahead of possible strike
- ‘Bit of a tricky situation’: What WestJet passengers should know about a possible strike
- WestJet flight attendants approve strike mandate as ground pay takes centre stage
- Metro Vancouver Workers
- Metro Vancouver workers threaten full-scale strike with little progress in talks
- Update: Metro Vancouver Statement on GVRDEU Strike
- Unionized workers who look after regional parks like Grouse Mountain walk off job
- All GVRDEU workers at Metro Vancouver parks walk off job; union warns of ‘full-scale strike’
- BC Nurses
- Rob Shaw: B.C. nurses wanted 32% wage hike before arbitration
- B.C.’s unionized nurses to end job action provincewide to review recommendations
- B.C. nurses: Mediated talks ‘productive’ but ‘too early to know’ if deal is possible
- B.C. nurses to halt picketing as mediation talks begin
- ‘Positive development’: BC nurses remove Vancouver picket line as province appoints mediators
- Veteran mediator Vince Ready to step in to try to end B.C. nurses’ dispute
- Talks between B.C. nurses and employer at impasse, union wants the province to help
- ‘Maintaining essential services’: Here’s how BC Nurses’ strike is impacting Metro Vancouver hospitals (UPDATE)
- B.C. nurses to expand pickets to cover three health facilities, citing intimidation
- Nurses in British Columbia will picket the province’s largest hospital next week
- BC nurses will escalate job action Tuesday
- B.C. nurses start limited job action as strike deadline passes
- Rob Shaw: B.C. nurses reach strike position as pressure builds on Eby government
- How could a nurses’ strike impact B.C.’s health-care system? – CBC video
- Translink
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Published in the July 2026 Blueridge Bulletin:
- Dog licence canvassers coming to your neighbourhood – from the DNV
- TransLink fares are going up this week as per annual Canada Day tradition
- West Vancouver council reluctantly moves forward on province’s housing density changes
- Dredging of Vancouver’s Burrard approved to make room for big oil tankers
- Two North Vancouver properties flagged for landslide risk: Report
- Five tips to stay cool in your home without AC
- North Shore 50+ hockey team scores improbable national championship win – our local team made headlines!
- Residential gas bills to increase in B.C.
- North Vancouver District looking at ways to improve cycling routes to Deep Cove
- Metro Vancouver: Statement of Financial Information Released for 2025
- The ‘yuck factor’: Metro Vancouver report reveals what we’re still putting in our trash, but shouldn’t – inside there’s a headline saying “Nearly half Metro’s garbage is recyclable”
- District of North Vancouver gets ready to tighten rules on vape shops
- North Shore group deploys robot bruin for bear spray target practice
- Evo expands in North Vancouver, offers discounted e-bike rides during summer and FIFA World Cup
- DNVFRS offering free wildfire home hazard assessment
- Small leak of process water at oil refinery in Burnaby, B.C., is contained: operator
- Rain lowers wildfire risk in B.C. and brings ‘reprieve from the dryness’ – the early June rains are a welcome (if brief) relief
- DNV seeks public feedback on transportation plan
- New Silver Harbour Seniors’ Activity Centre set to open soon in North Vancouver
- Chemtrade Chlorine Plant
- DNV Residential Zoning Changes
- e-Scooters
- Guardian ticketed following E‑Scooter crash involving 12‑Year‑old – RCMP press release includes the rules
- North Vancouver RCMP fine parents after 12-year-old injured in e-scooter crash
- North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Independent findings on troubled $3.9-billion North Shore sewage treatment plant due in early 2027
- Metro Vancouver names team for independent review of wastewater plant project
- Independent Review Team Confirmed for North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant Project – Metro Vancouver press release
- North Shore group renews call for public inquiry into wastewater plant cost overruns
- Citizens group renews request for North Shore sewage plant inquiry
- Metro Vancouver announces review of wastewater facility where costs grew to $3.86B
- Mount Seymour Expansion Plan
- Survey extended until July 24th. See link below.
- Editorial: Are we ready for big changes to Mt Seymour?
- North Vancouver’s Mt Seymour Resort eyes massive expansion
- Mt. Seymour Resort Master Plan Website
- Provincial Survey Page – survey open until 4pm on
June 26July 24
- Stage 3 Water Restrictions Begin June 8
- Water fight: Surrey defies Metro Vancouver Stage 3 restrictions. What’s next?
- Metro Vancouver is asked to meet and exceed water restrictions as temperatures soar
- Metro Vancouver Urges Water Conservation Leading into Hot Weekend
- Stage 3 water restrictions (effective June 8) – from the DNV
- Tighter watering restrictions come in June 8 in Lower Mainland
- Metro Vancouver to ban car washing and lawn watering next week under Stage 3 rules
- Metro Vancouver Press Release
- Full Restrictions List in a Graphic
- Full Restrictions List in a Chart
- Strike News – because there seem to be a lot of these lately
- Nurses
- B.C. Nurses’ Union issues 72-hour strike notice after members reject deal
- B.C. nurses issue strike notice as they reach ‘breaking point,’ union president says
- BC Nurses Issue 72-Hour Strike Notice
- B.C. nurses vote 67 per cent to reject tentative deal in ‘frustration,’ union says
- B.C. nurses vote down tentative deal
- Air Canada
- Transit Workers (Coast Mountain Bus Company)
- Doctors
- 911 Workers
- Canada Post
- Metro Vancouver Workers
- Metro Vancouver union agrees to mediated talks as full-scale strike called off
- Mediation Between Metro Vancouver and GVRDEU Expected to Begin Soon with Support from the Labour Relations Board – Metro Vancouver press release
- Metro Vancouver outside workers going on full-scale strike starting Monday – June 15
- Union escalates job action with full-scale strike coming Monday – June 15
- Update: Metro Vancouver Statement on GVRDEU Strike
- Metro Vancouver outside workers picketing watersheds, protective services, warn full strike getting closer
- Metro Vancouver workers closer to ‘full-scale strike’ with no contract progress
- What’s at Stake in Metro Vancouver Workers’ Escalating Strike?
- Lower Mainland SPCA Workers
- Nurses
Just Because Stories – these are here because they made your webmaster happy: