Local News

With the District of Squamish considering significant increases to taxation to help balance this year's budget, current budget proposals also call for an increase of three quarters of a million dollars to non-core spending.

The Western Railway Heritage Museum is hosting a unique fashion show that will not only look at the history of women's fashion, but at a century of social change.

The 4th Annual All Free Family Celebration at Brennan Park is ready to hosts hundreds of Squamish residents who want to have fun and games.

CN Rail conductors and yard service workers went on strike Monday (Feb. 12) to fight company demands that some say will cause accidents.

The Sea to Sky Corridor will reap the benefits of the next provincial agenda as described by Premier Gordon Campbell during his Throne Speech Tuesday (Feb. 13), according to West Vancouver-Garibaldi MLA Joan McIntyre.

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.