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Tow truck driver Peter Du Plessis says he’s lost track of the number of vehicles he’s moved since the snow started falling on Bowen Island.

According to the report submitted to council last week by planner Daniel Martin, the idea of allowing detached secondary suites - otherwise known as granny flats or laneway houses -has been under consideration since Bowen became incorporated as a mun

At 3:45 pm on Monday afternoon the Bowen Island Fire Department got a call from dispatch telling them to meet the RCMP on Hiker’s Trail to help out hikers on Mt. Gardner.

Islanders comment on proposed location of new fire hall, parking lot

More snow, and likely falling branches (the cause of the power outage today) is expected tomorrow. Tonight the water taxi departing from Snug Cove at 11:15 and back from Horseshoe Bay at 11:30 has been cancelled.

Now in its 45th year, the Bowen Island Children’s Centre (BCC) can claim to have put 3,080 children through its pre-school program.

On Tuesday of this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave the stamp of approval to Kinder Morgan’s plans to expand the Trans-Mountain pipeline project calling it safe, necessary for creating middle-class jobs and ensuring Canada is economically str

It took less than a week for Bowen Islanders to rally around the remaining vegetables in the field of Primrose Farm and turn it into more than 70 litres of soup for the Bowen Island Food Bank.

After two years on Bowen Island, yoga teacher Natasha Currah has ditched the commute and clearly made an impression on her clientele, as at least one of them put her in the running for Small Business BC’s “People’s Choice Award.

Pet saves owner from burning home; community response, support is ‘overwhelming’