Local News

District of Squamish councillors began the long process Tuesday (Feb. 6) of balancing this year's budget - a budget that is currently $3 million in the red.

Can you hear that sound? It's the groaning of calculators at the district office as the financial wizards urgently tap in the numbers for the proposed 2007 budget options.

RCMP are investigating two attacks on residents who were bear sprayed in the face at close range last week. On Thursday Feb. 1 at 2:55 p.m.

The Sea to Sky corridor's winter of disconnect continued this week with extended closures of Highway 99 not once but twice - the first for landslide north of Horseshoe Bay and the second for a truck-bus accident just south of Function Junction.

Trail users are voicing outrage after a popular municipal park trail in the Garibaldi Highlands was scarred by the removal of hazardous trees. "It was just pathetic what they did," said trails advocate Cliff Miller.

A fast-rising television series that launched in Squamish last summer is less likely to use the town as a location because a few opportunistic merchants tried to take advantage of the production company after blocking store frontages during shooting,

Whistler's business community has taken up the cause of Candy, the orphaned bear cub believed to have hitched a ride to Squamish aboard a garbage truck in December.

A Squamish resident is facing charges of street racing after taking the police on a car chase while allegedly drunk last weekend.Police said they spotted the 22-year-old male at approximately 10:50 p.m. Saturday (Jan.

More than 100 locals caught Olympic fever Thursday (Jan. 25) during the Chamber of Commerce presentation Lure of the Rings.

Residents witnessed a spectacular car chase through downtown streets Sunday (Jan. 28) when three suspected car thieves took a detour through Squamish to avoid capture. At approximately 11:40 p.m.