In social media terms, if Salt Spring’s Official Community Plan and Land Use Bylaw (OCP-LUB) update project had a ...

In the wake of this summer’s surge of large vessels cruising the Gulf Islands — which included sightings of the 119-metre mega-yacht Launchpad, owned by Mark Zuckerberg — the world’s largest ...

Claudia Zanatta left us to join her husband Dennis, and her daughter Ileana, on May 22nd at the age of 92. She is survived by her children Ivo and Loretta, her five grandchildren, and her brother ...

As a kid growing up on Salt Spring, Finn Hughes played all kinds of sports — basketball, baseball, tennis, wrestling, squash — and was ...

When a family moves to Salt Spring Island or any place in Canada for that matter, they automatically place their children into the public school. There are no waiting lists. Yet that same family must ...

A proposal to include property into the Ganges Sewer District has given the public its first glimpse of plans for as many as 180 new units of housing, intended to be built in the most densely ...

Local officials are hoping for more rain but planning for the worst, as the region that includes every Gulf Island enters its fifth week of Level 4 drought — and Salt Spring lake levels look poised to ...

A new superintendent and CEO for schools in the Gulf Islands has officially signed on, according to board officials, who announced this week Jill Jensen will be filling the position effective Feb. 1, ...

Social media darlings Pender Island Fire Rescue (PIFR) enjoyed a Christmas Eve interview with Chicago-based Nexstar Media Group affiliate WGNTV, highlighting the department’s success at promoting fire ...

A community effort to provide housing for teachers on Mayne Island is coming to fruition this week — and may be inspiring officials within the Gulf Islands School District (SD64) to get into the ...

John Eric Neville, age 81, passed away peacefully on Salt Spring Island, BC on April 20, 2025. A dedicated and passionate naturalist, husband, father, grandfather, and friend to many, he generously ...

Back in 2019, Salt Spring’s Peter Allan, his wife Lynda Monk and their still-in-school sons Jesse and Jackson had many dining-room table conversations about the state of the world and how to imagine a ...