Local News

There's a side to Lee Malleau that many people don't know. When she's not reeling in business for Squamish as the District's Economic Development Officer, Malleau is an accomplished bass angler.

Police are citing excessive speed and erratic driving in the death of a 21-year-old man from Victoria in a horrific head-on collision on the Sea to Sky Highway just south of Britannia Beach early on Sunday morning (Aug. 8).

The trains will be steaming and puffing their way along the tracks just like in the old days, but there's a catch.

A Vancouver man slipped into the Ashlu River Monday (Aug. 2) and hasn't been seen since. The unidentified 18-year-old was at the river in the Upper Squamish Valley area with his father and two friends.

After a difficult week for the relationship between the Sea to Sky University (SSU) and the District of Squamish, the SSU project team is pressing ahead and delays to the projected opening in September 2006 are not expected.

Resort expansion and new resort development in B.C. is about to be made more efficient following the work of the B.C. Resort Task Force Advisory Group.

A tribute to the eagles is about to rise in Brackendale. Thor Froslev, curator of the Brackendale Art Gallery, is nearly ready to move on the next phase of his long-planned Eagle Tower Monument.

Maintenance workers not needed John French Chief Staff Writer Eighty railway maintenance workers in Squamish were given layoff notices by CN Rail (CN) late last month, just days after the multinational railway officially took control of BC Rail (BCR)

If you live in Brackendale and have a cat or dog that wanders around, be careful. Conservation officers have fielded several calls recently regarding the loss of cats and dogs in the area, and warn residents to be on the lookout for predators.

Squamish's climbing community was abuzz last weekend as the first family of rock came to town.