Local News

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.

The regular monthly distribution of groceries from the Squamish Food Bank will take place on Wednesday (Aug. 11) from 12 noon to 1 p.m. at the Elks' Hall on Second Avenue.

Trucks are hauling contaminated soil from the former Britannia Mine up into the mountains of Britannia Beach without a hint of the environmental concerns of the past.