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One resident wants to remind people to clean up their beach fires after she says her dog was given second-degree burns when it walked over unattended hot coals.

Blake and Jonni Gray of Roberts Creek were headed to Portland Aug. 22 with plans to meet with their lawyer and begin stirring the pot to get Oregon's traffic laws out of the dark ages.

Talk of package sewage treatment plants and urban containment areas dominated discussion about the proposed Eden Bay Estates development during the Aug. 15 regular council meeting in Sechelt.

Conservation officers on the Sunshine Coast are urging residents to highlight any black mesh netting on their properties in order to save deer from getting tangled up in the plastic. On Aug.

The Sechelt Indian Band (SIB) has been busy answering queries from other First Nations groups wanting to know more about the class action lawsuit they filed in Supreme Court last week.

Some residents in the Pender Harbour area are steaming after a handful of aging asphalt roads were chip-sealed, a cost-saving alternative to fresh paving.

Sunshine Coast RCMP officers Harrison Mohr and Kyle Hrynyk will pedal about 900 km to raise money for cancer research while supporting their friend four-year-old Oscar Dorval during this year's Cops For Cancer Tour de Coast.

B.C. Ferries is reviewing its scheduling after a three-sailing wait, long line-ups and frustrated travellers on Sunday, Aug. 19 out of the Langdale terminal.

Sunshine Coast RCMP are continuing to investigate a truck accident that occurred in Middle Point Road in Garden Bay Monday afternoon. On Aug. 20 at 3 p.m., RCMP responded to a report of a single-vehicle collision involving a Direct Disposal truck.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following this week: On Aug. 7 RCMP noticed a vehicle driving in the 1200 block of Gower Point Road in Gibsons without proper working tail lights.