Local News

About 75 people lined up along Trail Avenue March 21 for the official opening of a pump track at the newly created Proctor Bike Park in Sechelt.

The District of Sechelt is investigating ways to allow the keeping of bees, chickens and rabbits at residences in an effort to help locals provide for themselves.

Gibsons council has found a way to allow a new well to be drilled on Chaster Road, but stopped short of extending that option to five other lots in the Gospel Rock area.

The Town of Gibsons has posted the development application and supporting documents for the George Hotel on its website.

Sechelt council is looking at a deficit of $359,265 in their 2013 operating budget that will likely need to be filled by taxation, as well as a shortage of more than $4 million in the preliminary capital budget this year.

Money for job and skills retraining and a commitment to share the costs of municipal infrastructure projects marked the highlights of the federal government's 2013 budget on Thursday, March 21.

Gibsons council has to attract new development and curtail discretionary spending to avoid sinking the Town in a sea of debt, a pair of critics told council recently.

Two people, including an 18-month-old child were taken to area hospitals after a boating accident in Halfmoon Bay Friday morning.

The RCMP Musical Ride will make its first-ever stop on the Sunshine Coast this summer with one performance in Gibsons.

A Roberts Creek man is grateful to Canada's health-care system after a poisonous snake bite in Costa Rica almost ended his life.