diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: bcgovr
 Title: Set Up of 'bcgov' R Projects & Packages
-Version: 1.0.2
+Version: 1.0.3
 Authors@R: c(person("Andy", "Teucher", role = c("aut", "cre"), email =
     "andy.teucher@gov.bc.ca"), 
     person("Stephanie", "Hazlitt", role = "aut", 
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # bcgovr 1.0.2
 
+* Fixed a bug where if a user supplied `""` to the `dir_struct` argument 
+of `create_bcgov_project()` it would throw an error.
+
+# bcgovr 1.0.2
+
 * Bump minimum usethis and git2r version
 
 # bcgovr 1.0.1