In my last piece, I wrote about why an LNG Plant is a good choice for our community. I do believe this is still the case, but thought it may do us all some good to explore why we need to export our energy in the first place. This is the part of the discussion avoided by supporters and opponents alike, so I thought I’d broach it.

By Michelle KellyPublished: April 10, 2014   As a business person, I found I was faced with challenges running my

By Paul HudsonPublished: April 7, 2014     One of the many benefits of working with a mortgage broker is

Every year, the Jim Pattison Group showcases men and women in the company who inspire fellow employees through their personal philosophy and practice.

With an eye on GHE emissions and airshed quality, Woodfibre LNG proponents say they will prefer electricity over natural gas to run the LNG plant.

A negative public perception and high servicing costs may be keeping potential investors away from the Paradise Trails, says the man tasked with selling the property.

All along, District of Squamish has made us believe that water leakage is high in Squamish because of our aging infrastructure. But now, a new district report is revising its earlier position and shifting the responsibility of the water loss on the consumer.

A Squamish entrepreneur is hoping someone will share his dream of expanding his small school into an engineering college.

Some of you may know I had subconsciously made a very strong plan going into this surgery. It wasn’t something I even thought about, yet, it was something I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt.

By Craig McConnellPublished: April 5, 2014     I enjoyed the point-counterpoint debate between Tracy Saxby and Nate Dolha. My

This summer, Solterra Development Corporation will start work on a public market in the former PacWest building, across from the Howe Sound Inn, on Cleveland Ave. Solterra will also build an indoor mountain bike park and a climbing facility on a portion of the 20-acre business park the company bought from the district in 2012.

With the onset of spring we are finally nearing the end of cold and flu season, a time period similar to the dark ages for parents with small children.

Last week, I attended a sustainability conference in Prince Edward Island. In communities all over Canada, people are grappling with the word.

I have collected a few of the common arguments against them for the purposes of offering an opposing viewpoint for balance.

There may be fewer parking spots available in the downtown core if council passes a downtown parking incentive program.

District of Squamish may fine a film production company for illegally shooting at the Smoke Bluff Park in January. The illegal movie shoot was discovered by Brian Moorehead, a member of the Smoke Bluffs Parks Committee.

A vertical farming entrepreneur is leaving Squamish and planning to set up his farm in Langley.

Ridership in Squamish has seen a 3.9 per cent increase since BC Transit improved and added new bus services, a provincial transit official said.

In the December 1969 elections, Alice Makowichuk topped the aldermanic polls – the first female elected to local government here since Jean McRae in 1948.

Sea to Sky Gondola is holding its first annual Job Fair at the Executive Inn in Squamish on April 4th and 5th, 2014.

Dave Crewson and Mario Gomes have created Startup Squamish, a place where entrepreneurs can share ideas and information, and find the support they need to transmute passion into action.

When the utility bill makes its way to the Squamish Seniors Housing Society, Laura Modray will receive it with a sense of relief and curious anticipation. This year, Modray knows the bill wouldn’t be as bad as it has been for years because of the new water meters at the housing complex.

The Association of Professional Engineers and Geologists (APEG) have started a bursary in honour of the late Squamish geologist Frank Baumann.

A Ring Creek home owner faces $35,000 in cleanup bills after a hoarder converted her property on Ring Creek Road into a fortress of garbage. The home owner says most of it came from the Squamish landfill, and with the active help of the landfill staff.

You don’t go to this gym; you just stumble upon this hidden gem installed behind the Brennan Park Recreation Centre. And you may not have stretched a muscle on it, the same can’t be said about your wallet.