Local News

A proposal to cut through a four-kilometre swath of Pinecone Provincial Park for power transmission lines was defeated in a surprise announcement by the provincial government Wednesday (March 26).

Squamish students have mad skills, and they proved it last week at the Skills Canada B.C. Competition at Howe Sound Secondary School.

The opportunity for revenue from a proposed gaming centre on Highway 99 is just too good to ignore, said the Squamish Nation's head of project development and negotiation, Toby Baker."They are a massive amount of economic stimulus.

District of Squamish environmental co-ordinator Peter Woods says Murrin Provincial Park's Browning Lake is safe from contamination after an accident involving a tanker on Highway 99 caused 2,200 litres of fuel to spill onto the accident site.

Squamish's Oceanfront is poised to become a major Olympic celebration destination in 2010. The District of Squamish has been in negotiations with the federal government, and the B.C.

It's been a year since property owners shocked recreationalists by clear cutting a swath of forest along the Upper Malamute in contravention of the district's site alteration bylaw - and a settlement is still being worked out.

Complaints and claims for damage related to Highway 99 construction are pouring into the Sea to Sky Improvements Project office, but representatives are attempting to assure drivers that every measure is taken to ensure safety.

Construction efforts for the $3-million expansion to Squamish General Hospital's emergency department started Monday (March 10).Joan McIntyre, MLA for West Vancouver-Garibaldi, joined Dr. LaVerne Kindree, Coun.

Now that the District of Squamish's downtown wireless internet system is implementing a test phase, residents and visitors can surf the web along Cleveland Avenue from Main Street to Pemberton Avenue.Convenience is rarely without cost, however.

Fuel from a tanker involved in an accident on Highway 99 last month has leached into Browning Lake, provincial Ministry of Environment officials confirmed this week.