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A drop-in centre for adults living with mental illness is asking the community for short-term financial assistance so they can keep their doors open.

As drivers and cyclists adjust to the new road configuration on Gibsons Way, some people are not willing to accept it. The congregation of St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church has started a petition to object to the recent changes in Gibsons.

The Coastal Fire Centre has issued an immediate ban on open fires due to the high risk for forest fires. Campfires are permitted, however. The Coastal Fire Centre covers the area west of the height of land on the Coast Mountain range from the U.S.

Some residents in Elphinstone and Gibsons are fearful after learning a transition house for recovering drug and alcohol addicts has opened on Pratt Road.

A delegation of Howe Sound Pulp and Paper (HSPP) employees was in Ottawa this week to rally on Parliament Hill and meet with John Weston, MP for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country.

An old program has gained new momentum to aid first responders when they attend to an ill or injured person in the home.

Linda Lorraine Howe, charged with 10 offences, including three counts of attempted murder, in connection with the alleged shooting March 31 at Christenson Village in Gibsons, will make her next court appearance on June 15.

Howe Sound Pulp and Paper (HSPP) is temporarily laying off an estimated 400 workers for the month of June in its kraft pulp mill and newsprint production operations.

A new hitchhiking program used by East Porpoise Bay residents suffered a bylaw blow when they had to remove ride share signs from designated spots along the route.

Not everyone enjoys the freedom to manoeuvre the District of Sechelt's (DOS) sidewalks, shops and parks with the ease of an able bodied person, and about a dozen of those people showed up to share their knowledge and hopes for change at the first pub