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A group of aspiring yoga students sit on the grass at Stan Clarke Park on a beautiful sunny Sunday morning. Everything is quiet except for the older model car coming down Second Avenue with its windows down and music turned up.

BC Hydro announced on Thursday (July 27) the results of the 2006 Open Call for Power, awarding 38 contracts to independent power producers around the province. The aim is to add more than 7,000 gigawatt hours per year to B.C.'s electricity output.

A host of First Nations and government dignitaries gathered at Totem Hall Monday (July 24) to acknowledge a joint federal and provincial investment of $1 million into the Squamish/Lil'Wat First Nations cultural centre being built in Whistler.

The end of parking meters in BC Parks may be in sight, according to Western Canada Wilderness Committee (WCWC) spokespersons during a campaign for the abolishment of the "user pay scheme".

They come, they shoot, they spend their money? Men in Trees, an ABC television series scheduled to air this fall, has announced they will be shooting one day per episode in Squamish from now until December and local businesses are hoping to benefit f

Squamish could be the location of a brand new passenger ferry terminal if a deal can be struck to sell 10 acres of Oceanfront land to ferry company Strait of Georgia Transit (SGT), said company executives during a presentation to council a week ago T

Organizers of last week's summer basketball camp in Sechelt had a glass half full approach. Half full because that's what the gym was - half full.

Driftwood Players, the Sunshine Coast amateur theatre company responsible for such recent successes as Melville Boys and Ten Lost Years, takes to the streets of Sechelt and Gibsons over the next two weeks with their project Wagon Tales.

When Celia Fisher got the call last week that she was the 2008 Golden Girl, it caught her completely unaware. She was expecting a call from Sea Cavalcade chair Conchita Harding about some memorabilia the Fishers had from past Cavalcades.

Liability issues are holding back good projects up and down the Coast. In Tuwanek, the Sechelt Gray Forest Service leading to Tetrahedron Provincial Park has become a four-year headache for the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD).