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The petition for the initiative to end the harmonized sales tax (HST) will be submitted to the Select Standing Committee on Legislative Initiatives and petition results by electoral district are now available.

Some of the world's biggest environmental protection groups are urging Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership to reconsider its sale of Howe Sound Pulp and Paper (HSPP) to a corporate family with a track record of environmental degradation. Sierra Club B.C.

Sunshine Coast RCMP responded to a report of a sudden death in the Sechelt McDonald's parking lot around 10 p.m. Wednesday night.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for Aug. 10 to 17: A report of a possible impaired driver came in from the 3500 block of Highway 101 after a vehicle was witnessed swerving and crossing the centre line several times.

The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is reminding B.C. residents to be extra cautious when door-to-door security system sales associates come knocking.

Quick acting citizens and boaters aided Sunshine Coast RCMP in a dramatic arrest in the waters off Secret Cove last Saturday night. The incident started around 7 p.m. Aug.

Economic uncertainty, a glut of real estate listings and the newly-implemented harmonized sales tax (HST) dramatically slowed real estate activity on the Sunshine Coast in July relative to the same month last year, according to local realtors.

Two Sunshine Coast run-of-river hydro projects have been awarded BC Hydro electricity purchase agreements in the most recent Clean Power Call, which wrapped up last week. BC Hydro announced Aug.

Residents living above Highway 101 in Roberts Creek near Crow Road fear a logging cut block already underway may result in a loss of access to drinking water - so much so, they've formed a group and laid out some plans to lobby for different logging

No one was seriously hurt, but a house undergoing renovations on Gibsons Way was almost completely destroyed by fire last Friday (Aug. 6).