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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.

With summer just around the corner many Bowen businesses are on the hunt for new employees.

RCMP Cpl. Paulo Arreaga, transferred from North Vancouver, has been living and working on Bowen Island for three weeks now, and with several visits to the pub under his belt, he’s started getting in to know the local community. Cpl.

Looking at a chart tracking the sale of Bowen Island homes, month by month, between 2003 and the present, realtor Dee Elliot is hesitant to say that the island’s real estate market has recovered.

In a press release sent out by the City of Burnaby, the mayors of Burnaby, Vancouver, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Squamish and Bowen Island co-signed a statement of non-confidence in the existing National Energy Board (NEB) public hearing proce