Local News

Sunshine Coast RCMP are asking for public information to help identify a person responsible for an assault on a Sechelt female on March 28. According to police, at approximately 3:30 p.m.

More than 80 community members came out Monday evening, March 29, to hear about and comment on Sechelt's new draft official community plan (OCP).

While the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors have voted to convert the Pender Harbour landfill to a transfer station, actual work on the planning and logistics is being put on hold.

Draft designs for the Gospel Rock neighbourhood plan continue to evolve after the most recent meeting of the refinement working committee.

Story: The Coast's early childhood development program, Success By 6, is regrouping after the provincial government announced March 18 that it will phase out funding of the program by March 2011.

A Sechelt mother is hoping for the best as she makes her way to California where her son is trapped by a violent storm near the summit of Mount Shasta.

Richard Brotherston, the Sechelt man held in a Cuban prison without charge since December 2009, has seen the first progress made in his case in three months.

Tragedy ensued in the waters of Narrows Inlet Sunday afternoon when a female diver from Pender Harbour died in an apparent accident. Sunshine Coast RCMP became involved with the search of the missing diver around 1:45 p.m. on March 28.

B.C. Ferries is preparing for a busy Easter long weekend with over 50 extra sailings beginning on Thursday, April 1.

The union representing Sechelt municipal employees has applied to the Labour Relations Board for mediation to try to work out a renewed collective bargaining agreement with the District of Sechelt.