The Salt Spring Island Conservancy (SSIC) is celebrating 30 years of grassroots efforts to protect the island’s natural heritage. Since 1995, it has worked to acquire and manage ecologically valuable ...

Local officials announced there will soon be a new waterfront community park on Salt Spring Island, thanks to a donation of roughly 1.5 acres of land near ...

Salt Spring Island has a long and rich agricultural tradition — with the first settler farming activities taking place in 1859 — and it was once British ...

ArtSpring opens its Canadian-focused 2025/26 season with what promises to be one of the most elegant and captivating concerts of the season.

Watching the Islands Trust’s online “town hall” on Sept. 10 regarding the draft new Trust Policy Statement (TPS) was an exercise in frustration. My pre-submitted question on population growth was read ...

The following was read at the closing ceremonies of Hands Across the Water in Centennial Park on Sunday, Sept. 21 by Justin Paulsen, San Juan County Council ...

Salt Spring’s annual festival for readers, writers and creatives of all types — Paper Covers Rock — is ready to unfold on Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 3 and 4. Events include: • Journaling for Creativity: ...

The inaugural Hands Across the Water festival marking the bringing together of Orcas Island and Salt Spring Island communities saw many smiles (and handshakes) shared and discoveries made on the Sept.

Almost exactly one year after Salt Spring’s agricultural community crowded Lions Hall to press for change in the wake of a court ruling against one couple’s ...

IWAV, which provides housing and anti-violence services across the Southern Gulf Islands, is experienced in developing affordable housing. The not-for-profit society currently operates a Transition ...

The Salt Spring Film Festival invites you to sail away with a globe-trotting, mountain- climbing Swiss family of eight who live full-time on their sailboat, featured in Livia Vonaesch’s award-winning ...