Squamish News

Police have spoken to a person of interest in the aggravated assault incident that left a Squamish man in hospital with serious injuries.

An understaffed RCMP has removed the only police officer working as a school liaison officer in town. RCMP and council both agree the position is important, but haven’t always agreed on how to make it work.

Issues around dogs are by far the most frequently reported bylaw violation (368 complaints) in the district for the year ending November 1, 2013.

It’s not a boom by any means, construction and particularly residential construction is seeing a revival in Squamish. With 78 new licences issued in 2013, construction is far ahead of all other businesses for new business licences.

By Craig CherletPublished: March. 1, 2014     Marketing a business today is no easy task. The old outbound marketing

I attended several of the community consultation sessions over the last two weeks to learn more, however, these sessions left me with more questions than answers.

Last year started with a coyote killing a small dog from a front yard in the Garibaldi Highlands. A coyote also killed a cat in the Garibaldi Highlands. The cougars may have receded into the wild, but pets in Squamish face new foes: Coyotes and bobcats.

District of Squamish is refusing to issue a business license to a downtown business, asking them to either apply for a rezoning or move to a location zoned commercial.

District of Squamish has rolled out its first-ever investment incentive program, available from now through to August 31, 2016. The incentive program provides property tax exemptions and façade improvement grants targeting commercial and mixed-use developments in downtown and industrial development in the Business Park.

An application has been made to rezone a parcel of land on Depot Road in Brackendale from the existing Rural 2 to Rural 1 zoning.