Local News

Hello, Halfmoon Bay. This week, I’m writing from Green Bay Family Camp in Kelowna (it’s only 9 a.m., and I’m already melting). We had been on the waitlist for months when a spot opened on Friday.

Ribbon cutting ceremony is at 10:45 a.m. and we’ll have live entertainment, with great food and beverages throughout the day.

Greetings Creekers! This morning I was picking up litter around the gazebo and along Lower Road. I seem to have been born with a bag lady gene.

The helicopter that landed in Gibsons Thursday night was responding to a woman who had fallen from a second-storey window.

Also, Wooden Boat Show is Aug. 2-4, Gunboat Bay Blues is Aug.10

The summertime Music in the Landing series on the Gibsons waterfront continues this weekend with performances on Friday and Saturday. On Friday, July 19, the Old Stogies will perform at the gazebo on the dock.

Naturalists/artists continue welcoming massive mammals back to Salish Sea

shíshálh Nation celebrates the opening of its state-of-the-art wastewater treatment facility

Elphinstone resident Michael Master was trying to move a bear away from his neighbourhood, when people started showing up to take photos with their phones, hindering his attempts.

Flows from Gray Creek, which at points in past years have contributed 10 to 15 per cent of Chapman system water, not online, as Vancouver Coastal Health recently introduced a requirement that a water quality advisory be issued before the SCRD puts that creek’s supply into use.