Local News

An extra $438,861 in the Howe Sound School District's budget for the 2003/2004 year has made room for more teaching staff at three Squamish elementary schools this year.

The Howe Sound Arts Association is pleased to have the Borealis String Quartet perform at its fall opening tonight (Oct. 1) at 8 p.m. in the Eagle Eye Theatre. This talented quartet is becoming well known in the Canadian chamber music scene.

The two men who are proposing a controversial gondola for the Stawamus Chief will go before Squamish council Tuesday (Sept. 28).

The ninth annual Sea to Sky Film Festival will be held in the Eagle Eye Theatre tonight (Sept. 24), at 7 p.m. Each year there are over 10 short films screened for the audience, many world premieres.

The road from Squamish to Central and South America is a long one, but two local people are making the trip on motorcycles. Todd Lawson and Christina Tottle won't be the only people from Squamish in Central America.

British Columbia's land-based provincial parks have existed for decades, but "ocean" parks are new to the provincial park family, and they're here to stay. Two of the people responsible for the creation of B.C.

VANCOUVER-A Squamish man beat his friend to death after a drunken argument, it was alleged in court this week. Jesse Andy, 32, is on trial at Vancouver Supreme Court for manslaughter, following a killing in Squamish on Sept. 8, 2003.

Squamish mothers have a chance to be part of a record-breaking event next weekend just by doing what comes naturally. On Oct. 2 at 11 a.m.

One of Squamish's largest landowners is formally moving ahead with plans to create a new neighbourhood of nearly 3,000 people, setting in motion a conflict with the developers of the Sea to Sky University (SSU) project that will have to be resolved b

The race to replace Ted Nebbeling has started for the B.C. Liberals with the announcement of the first candidate.