Local News

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit just off the coast of Vancouver Island last Friday, resulting in small tremors on the Sunshine Coast, which some people felt and some didn't.

The District of Sechelt will likely follow the lead of Gibsons and adopt a bylaw banning leg-hold, Conibear and snare traps, even though that bylaw may be unenforceable.

Winning a restaurant is fun With a limerick it can be done If you give it a try And catch the owner's eye You could be chosen as the one A simple limerick and a $300 entry fee could win you Benjamin's International Café in Gibsons.

Concerns over the school-based drug and alcohol prevention program coming to an end are unwarranted, according to Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), which says the program will be enhanced this year.

A report on possibilities for the Sechelt neighbourhood of learning was released this week, but the options don't include the cultural complex idea talked about last year.

Representatives from the District of Sechelt will be in court on Sept. 28 to face allegations of abuse of public office. The claim was filed by businessman Brock Rodgers in 2008 but it has taken until this month to have the issue heard in court.

Cops for Cancer Tour de Coast travels through the Sunshine Coast on Thursday, Sept. 22. By then local constables Colin Bissill and Mark Wiebe will have the saddle sores to prove their devotion to the pediatric cancer cause.

There was a break and enter to Nitestar Galleries on Cowrie Street in Sechelt on Sept. 13 sometime between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. Sunshine Coast RCMP said an alarm was activated when the thief broke in to the jewellery store by way of the front door. Cpl.

Sunshine Coast RCMP are reporting a case of major vandalism which saw 22 highway signs knocked down along Highway 101 last week. The incidents occurred sometime during the night of Sept. 6 or the morning of Sept. 7.

A large number of human-caused wildfires and above-normal temperatures across the province have fire officials urging hunters and recreationalists to be extremely careful with campfires in the backcountry.