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Bowing to pressure from user groups, the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) has cancelled plans to remove the ice surface almost one week early at the Gibsons and Area Community Centre.

The District of Sechelt is being taken to court by the Tuwanek Ratepayers' Association (TRA), which claims the District wrongfully issued a development permit for Eden Pacific.

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) should not rush ahead with a bylaw to restrict medical marijuana production facilities to large rural lots, but should also allow smaller scale grow operations under any new zoning rules that are adopted.

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) is projecting a nine per cent overall increase in property taxes this year, with residential rates expected to rise by an average of just over seven per cent.

The ferry critic who "outed" Premier Christy Clark's apparent flip-flop on BC Ferries during the March 11 protest in Victoria was targeted for intimidation four days later, the BC Ferry Coalition is charging.

On Monday, March 10, students gathered at Gibsons Elementary School to witness the arrival and blessing of a large cedar log that will become a totem pole adorning the front of their new school, set to open this September.

The screams of excitement were deafening at Elisa Hendricks' home Wednesday night when family and friends watched her win the appetizer portion of Recipe to Riches on CBC.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for March 11 to 18: Between March 8 and 10, another incident of mischief was reported at the public washrooms in Hackett Park in Sechelt.

School District No. 46 (SD46) has received great news from the carbon neutral capital program of the Ministry of Education.

The Sechelt Downtown Business Association (SDBA) has decided to discontinue coordination of the Sechelt Thursday Night Market.