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 ...

The following is a longer version of a piece published on page 6 of the July 8, 2026 issue of the Driftwood newspaper, submitted by Kajin Goh, chair of the Chuan Society and project coordinator of The ...

Just after noon on a Thursday in June, nearly a dozen senior citizens filed through the front doors of Gulf Islands Secondary School (GISS). A few minutes later, in a classroom just outside the ...

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 ...

It’s been open for about six weeks, but you can still stand inside and watch islanders break out into happy, surprised little smiles as they walk into Windsor Plywood’s new building for the first time ...

Seconds after the Islands Trust voted against Ethan Wilding’s proposal to cover Baker Beach with a few metres of sand and gravel, there was a pause, and then Ethan asked, “What happens next?” Well, we ...

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 ...

The SȾÁUTW̱ (Tsawout) First Nation has announced plans for its reserve lands in WENÁ,NEĆ, also known as Fulford Bay, including a campground project, initially, with work scheduled to begin this month.

The Gulf Islands Secondary School (GISS) Scorpions senior girls soccer team returned home on the weekend with a sixth-place finish from the BC AA Girls Soccer Provincial Championships in Kamloops. The ...

Salt Spring’s Lions Club has been around since 1958, and has done a huge amount of good since its inception, as described in our March/April 2026 Aqua story written by club member Val Neaves. Some ...

An investigation has concluded pilots of a helicopter hit by lightning over South Pender Island three years ago could not have known conditions were building toward the relatively rare phenomenon of ...