Kathleen Stormont and Graham Elvidge embarked on a full-scale renovation of a 107-year-old house in 2004. After a year and half ordeal, they're still at it. Photo-Kyle Hoobin

This old Strathcona house
Construction fencing surrounds the two-storey Queen Anne Gothic home at the corner of Dunlevy and Prior streets. Its siding is faded, although a smattering of primer provides passersby a clue of what it might look like freshly painted.
 

Only a small fraction of material hazardous-CPR
A spokesperson for Canadian Pacific Railway calls the amount of hazardous goods shipped through downtown Vancouver "miniscule."
 

Hazardous goods documented at proposed Whitecaps stadium site
A former employee with the Canadian Centre for Toxicology says hazardous material transported by rail under the proposed downtown site of a soccer stadium has him worried.
 

Web disclosure of election expenses leaves out names
Want to know how much Mayor Sam Sullivan spent to get elected?
 

COPE a loser with casino
The $50,000 that Great Canadian Casino contributed to the 2005 election campaigns of Vision Vancouver and the NPA was not a payback for the parties support of slot machines at Hastings Racecourse, says a company spokesman.
 

Budget cuts worry child advocates
The looming city budget must maintain levels of funding for Vancouver childcare centres, says a local childcare advocate.
 

Anchors away for adventurous museum boss
The longtime head of the Vancouver Maritime Museum has traded in his desk and computer for a BlackBerry and more undersea adventures.
 

City artist fights for peace with visual bombs
Artist A.S. Dhillon prefers to hang his art on the roof of an art gallery than inside it.
 

Pirate and yogi make fitness fun
On April 1, a purple pirate and a smiling yogi will sail off on a giant banana to spread messages of healthy living to the nation's children.
 

Grateful country tops up Turvey's award shelf
A former Downtown Eastside activist who developed the city's first needle exchange in North America will be invested today as a member of the Order of Canada.
 

City's youth thinking Globe
At a past GLOBE business and environment trade fair, Karun Koernig got excited about a new kind of toilet.
 

Computerless poor lining up to go online
The computer rooms of community centres in the Downtown Eastside are overflowing with welfare applicants due to provincial government cuts to social services.
 

Residents WISH drop-in would locate elsewhere
Rick Archambault lives five blocks from a proposed 24-hour safe house for sex workers in the Downtown Eastside and he's not happy about it.