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Renewable Power Corporation's Tyson Creek hydro project, which the company shut down in late March in the wake of an environmental problem, has now been up and running for two months.

A petition is underway to help protect some very rare, very ancient sponge reefs off B.C.'s coast including several in the Strait of Georgia near the Sunshine Coast.

More than 650 Coast residents plus 50 tourists have put their names to a petition decrying a plan to widen Highway 101 where it intersects with Davis Bay Road, eliminating five memorial benches, some landscaping and 15 parallel parking spaces that bu

More than 100 residents from Langdale to Powell River packed Roberts Creek Hall Monday (Aug.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for Aug. 3 to 10: A caller reported a possible truck rolled over on the side of the by-pass leading to the Langdale ferry terminal.

Well-known environmentalist, filmmaker and author Mike Poole died July 13 from complications of prostate cancer. Poole was 74. Poole was born in St. John, N.B. and came to the Sunshine Coast in 1943.

The Coastal Fire Centre campfire prohibition remains in place in anticipation of a return to hot dry conditions.

A presentation about the Jellyfish Project - a local project to raise awareness of the ocean's fragility, encourage consumers to buy only sustainable seafood and lobby for the use of biodegradable plastics that won't clog oceans and kill fish and sea

The federal riding represented in Ottawa by John Weston has received a proportionally larger share of the federal economic stimulus funding pie than most others in British Columbia, the Conservative member of Parliament pointed out in an interview la

Friends of Davie Bay Society filed a court challenge on Monday, July 26, in an attempt to force an environmental assessment of the proposed Texada South Quarry in Davie Bay.