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At a special meeting of council, clean-energy policy advocate and Bowen Island resident James Glave said that the municipality can use the province’s new BC Energy Step Code to ensure that all homes built on Bowen Island will be more comfortable, mor

At 3am on Tuesday morning, Jon McNeil couldn’t sleep. Sitting on the couch, he looked at his phone and saw a coast-wide tsunami warning and immediately woke up his wife, Alex.

As many of you know, the newspaper industry is facing unparalleled challenges in today’s digital world. Many communities have seen their local papers close or faced with reduced publishing frequency or page counts.

A strong gust of wind caused a safety gate to blow off its hinges and land on the vehicle deck of the Bowen Queen ferry on Sunday morning, putting the vessel out of commission for a few hours.

As the new year begins, we wanted to take a moment to outline some basic information on your local RCMP Detachment and provide some numbers.

A year ago, it seemed like little could get in the way of plans to build a community health care centre on Bowen Island.

Municipality considers appropriate response to illegal builds

First of all we would like to thank council for advancing this project by unanimously giving third reading last December.

BC Assessment has released the results of their work over the past year, and for Bowen Island, that work shows the value of homes up an average of 10.5 percent.

Last week, The Undercurren t checked-in with Mayor Murray Skeels the big changes he sees on the horizon for Bowen Island in 2018.