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Confidence is growing amongst Coastal officials around the possibility that both the zero waste management and economic development plans could be completed this year.

Michel Brule was sentenced May 22 to 18 months in prison and three years of probation after pleading guilty to charges stemming from two Roberts Creek residential fires.

The B.C. Mayors' Caucus called upon the provincial and federal governments to help their communities deal with the challenges facing them, through a better use of resources.

The lab results came back negative for Grieg Seafood last week, after the presence of infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN) was discovered at their Ahlstrom Point salmon farm during routine testing.

The beavers are happy and so are the homeowners on Murdock and Francis Peninsula Road where flooding used to be a problem.

There is a severe lack of available infant and toddler childcare spaces on the Coast - an issue that's not unique to our area.

A judge in Vernon has placed an injunction on members of Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF), forbidding them from interfering with logging operations or encouraging others to do the same after a threatening comment was made on Facebook.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has said it intends to move two fisheries officers now stationed in Madeira Park to a consolidated office, although DFO wouldn't say where that office is or when the change would occur.

School District No. 46 (SD46) is changing the way it distributes Community LINK funding in the 2012/13 school year, leaving community school co-ordinators unsure of the future of some programs.

A proposed gravel mine on McNab Creek was met with boisterous opposition from approximately 150 residents who crammed into a yoga studio at Eagleridge Community Centre in Horseshoe Bay to hear details about the project May 23.