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RCMP conclude investigation The scoured banks of Battani Creek after the December 24, 2024 debris torrent. Photo by kc dyer. Squamish RCMP have announced that no criminal charges will be laid related to the deadly Battani Creek landslide in 2024. The December 14 landslide took the lives of long-time Lions Bay residents David and Barbara Enns. The slide blocked both lanes of the Sea to Sky Highway. In a release Friday evening, RCMP Media Liaison Corporal Ashley MacKay stated t

Climate Action Committee member John Robb breaks it down Aerial photo of Lions Bay by David Butler. Editor's note: At the February 17 meeting, Council approved a recommendation from the Climate Action Committee to complete a Natural Asset Inventory, a concept discussed at the January 27 Committee of the Whole  meeting. CAC member John Robb breaks down the details of all such an inventory entails here. Story by John Robb Lions Bay has provincial Local Government Climate Action

Rail ownership, bear- resistant bins and flag protocols... oh my! Discussion of possible rail development, the cost of new wildlife-resistant waste receptacles, and a first-time policy for flag protocols were just a few of the wide-ranging topics covered in the February 18 Council meeting. For the first time in more than a year, there was no in-camera component scheduled prior to the regular meeting. However upon review of the evening's agenda (found HERE ), Councillor Micha

Garth Begley, once again helping to keep the Village beautiful Public Works' Garth Begley with the new planter boxes, and some of the planning that went into the design. Story and photos by John Dudley About 15 years ago, Rose Dudley returned from a cycling holiday in Germany where she had fallen in love with the boxes of flowers on many of the bridges she crossed.   At a dinner party, she told her neighbour Grant Prior about them and how she would love to see some on the Vil