Local News

Community members quite literally put their money where their mouths are in opposition to the proposed all-season resort Garibaldi at Squamish (GAS) last week.

After more than 20 years of good times and bad, the downtown Pavilion appears to be destined for destruction. A recent engineer's report determined the building was on the verge of collapse.

A safe ride to school is tough to come by for students who rely on their bikes to get to class. As council debates the 2008 budget, several local residents are pushing for improved bike lanes along the town's major arteries including Government Road.

The announcement of a 30,000-sq.-foot London Drugs store coming to Garibaldi Village Shopping Centre has some downtown business owners asking whether Squamish really needs a fifth pharmacy.

The challenges associated with eating locally are about to get a lot easier with the return of Harvest Boxes by Good Time Farming in Squamish Valley.

Residents may soon be seeing picket lines at Save-On Foods.With employee contracts expiring March 29, Save-On union representatives announced they will hold a strike vote for stores under Overwaitea contracts from Squamish to Hope next week.

After two seasons in Squamish, the often unstable World Hockey Association (WHA) is leaving town and taking the popular Cougars team.

Mayor Ian Sutherland's publicly aired criticism of the RCMP understates the organization's efforts to improve highway enforcement, said local MLA Joan McIntyre this week.

Squamish Fire Rescue is asking the community to be on the lookout for an arsonist causing property damage for the last month. The latest fires occurred Friday (March 28) at 6:41 a.m.

Ask most teens what they did on their spring break and "parties" or "shopping" would probably be at the top of the list. But for four local youths, helping kids in Africa trade in drugs for an education was all in a holiday's work.