Local News

With municipal elections set to take place in November, the issue of mail-in ballots was discussed at the Sunshine Coast Regional District's (SCRD) corporate and administrative services committee meeting on May 26.

After many years of meetings, studies and input from a wide variety of groups, the Town of Gibsons is inching closer to solidifying a neighbourhood plan for the highly contentious Gospel Rock area.

The man at the centre of a police-involved shooting in June of 2009 and facing further charges in connection to another alleged assault in Gibsons on May 8 has pled guilty to all the charges in provincial court.

Sechelt is back on the map, and it has social media and the blogging world to thank.

While trying to save people potentially trapped inside a burning home on Binnacle Avenue in Sechelt, Sunshine Coast RCMP stumbled upon a sophisticated grow operation with more than 800 marijuana plants.

If there is a postal strike in Canada, you won't see any picket lines on the Sunshine Coast. Coast letter carriers are classified as rural and are not allowed to strike under their current contract.

The issue of allowing Target Marine Hatcheries to process sturgeon for caviar will go to referendum, following an "unprecedented" decision by council June 1.

The Langdale ferry terminal has just been equipped with a new saltwater sewage treatment plant -the first of its kind in Canada.

For most Sunshine Coasters, the news of the capture of Ratko Mladic, the man behind a massacre outstripped only by the Holocaust in its depth of horror, was just another news item.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for May 24 to 31: On May 24, thieves broke into a storage facility in the 5600 block of Inlet Avenue by cutting through a fence.