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Bowen LIFT (Linking Islanders through Friendly Transportation) wants to grow and we need your help. Over the next six months, Bowen LIFT is going to be running some programs to encourage ride-sharing.

Amendments remove limits on tourist accommodations, open door for camping and trailer parks

Less than one year ago, just weeks before the end of term at Capilano University, students in the fine arts program learned that their department was closing.

Rotarians want to enable community action to maintain trails

Congratulations to Bowen Island architect James Tuer, proud recipient of the 2014 Wood Design Award for Interior Beauty for the home of Michael and Jennifer Henrichsen, otherwise known as “the Forest House,” on Bowen Island.

Protest at the Horsehoe Bay ferry terminal draws diverse crowd of Bowen Islanders

Councillors Wolfgang Duntz and Daron Jennings handed in letters of resignation to the Municipality on Friday, March 14th.

On Tuesday, the Bowen Island Municipality announced its decision to hire Ian Thompson as the new chief of the island's volunteer fire department. Former chief Brian Biddlecombe announced plans for his retirement last year.

When the BC Cancer agency approached Colleen O'Neil to get her friends together to film a commercial about mammograms, she responded positively, and invited her friends to meet her at Diane's Lingerie shop in Vancouver.

Following a brief presentation about the achievements of Bowen Island's Economic Development Committee (EDC) in the past year by committee chair Gordon Ganong, council debated the idea of creating an "economic development master plan.