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At 35 years of age, Bowen Islander Monika Sabathil was diagnosed with a kidney disease called Glomerulonephritis, a condition, she says, that she has probably had since she was a teenager and may not have ever been diagnosed in earlier times.

I worked for years as a priest and now for the last two in a private practice dedicated to soul work. The most surprising thing I’ve learned from my work is this: people don’t know how to feel.

As the ferry docked at Snug Cove on Tuesday evening, the hydraulic cylinder that helps to raise and lower the ferry lamp broke off from the pin that attaches it to the ferry ramp, causing long delays for Bowen commuters eager to get home on the 5:30

With less than one month until the return of the Queen of Capilano and the official end to the lifespan of the “Super Bus” that shuttles commuters to downtown and back, Bowen Island’s municipal transportation committee (BIMTAC) has struck up a specia

On Thursday morning, when Bowen Belle water taxi pulled in to English Bay to drop commuters off at Granville Island, English Bay Launch owner and operator Mike Shannon says he didn’t see anything that indicated that there might be a problem in the wa

For Brian Biddlecombe, owner of Bowen Island’s Cormorant Marine water taxi service, watching the HMCS Annapolis sink to the bottom of the ocean for the purpose of becoming an artificial reef was a once-in a lifetime experience.

It was back in the summer of 2012 when one of the unassuming sheds behind the library found a higher purpose: as a storage room for medical equipment to be lent to members of the community in times of need.

This Tuesday, council approved and released a document outlining six strategic pillars containing eleven priorities in the coming year.

A bus load of Bowen Islanders, as well as Islanders travelling in their own vehicles, travelled to Squamish to attend a rally organized by Skwomesh Action and My Sea to Sky to protest against the proposed expansion of the Fortis BC pipline and Woodfi

Rescue crews from B.C. Ferries, the Coast Guard and Vancouver Police marine unit spent a frantic hour combing the waters off Cowan Point on Bowen Island Monday afternoon after a man jumped overboard from the Queen of Oak Bay ferry.