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Spokespeople from the salmon farming industry said media assertions of the proposed Animal Health Act's potential impact on their industry were manifestly not correct.

New details have emerged regarding the final moments of Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCM-SAR) volunteers Angie Nemeth and Beatrice Sorensen, who died June 3 during a morning training exercise, after the tragedy's first responder told his

St. Mary's Hospital Foundation announced receipt of a donation of more than $1 million during a small ceremony held before their annual general meeting on June 11.

The District of Sechelt has now filled in a sinkhole that was about five-feet (0.4 metres) wide and 10-feet (0.92 metres) deep, discovered on Seawatch Lane last week, but the roadway remains closed as crews work to find a permanent fix.

Christine Sharp went missing from St. Mary's Hospital on June 4 and this week Sunshine Coast RCMP are asking for the community's help to find the 30-year-old woman, described as mentally unstable.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for the week of June 5 to June 11: On June 5, a thief broke into a residence in the 4300 block of Marble Road in Wilson Creek.

Do you know someone who has ever looked at a piece of technology and said, "I can do better!" and then gone out and done it? Or how about the creative thinker who saw a problem and came up with the sort of solution that makes you wonder, "Why didn't

On Saturday June 2, local MP John Weston inaugurated National Health and Fitness Day with events in Whistler, Squamish, Lions Bay and West Vancouver.

After 25 years, Julie Skippon, the president and face of the B.C. Schizo-phrenia Society's Sunshine Coast Branch, is retiring. She, along with Const. Ashley Taylor, were honoured at the annual general meeting of the society on June 1.

The new WorkBC Employment Services Centre run by Open Door Group officially opened its site at Sunnycrest Mall in Gibsons on June 1, to the delight of Gibsons Mayor Wayne Rowe.