Aurora season opens, and the county's dark-sky pullouts draw their first full night
A coronal mass ejection pushed the borealis far enough south to watch from a downtown parking lot. The county built four places to see it…
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Montney permits climb as two operators add rigs near Wembley
Nineteen new licences west of the city this quarter, the most since 2022 — and this round comes with water plans attached.
Clear nights, harvest days: the week ahead, with an aurora watch attached
Highs near 22, overnight lows flirting with 4, and two more nights of geomagnetic activity worth losing sleep over.
Canola comes off two weeks early, and the elevators adjust on the fly
A dry July moved the whole county's timeline up. The crop is lighter than hoped, drier than feared, and moving fast.
FireSmart crews thin the creek corridor before the dry weeks arrive
Sixty hectares of brush and deadfall come out of the valley this month — the unglamorous work that decides how a bad day goes.
The best light show in the county asks only that we turn ours off
The city is spending $1.4 million to light an avenue and the county built four places to escape light entirely. Both are right, and the…