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An aggressive black bear had to be shot last week, adding to this year's string of bad news for bears.

A Sunshine Coast man is facing one count of arson in connection with a fire on Sechelt Indian Band lands on July 13. On Aug. 8, Sunshine Coast RCMP issued an arrest warrant for 48-year-old Michael Wilfred Shea.

If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody's there to hear it, who cares what it sounds like? However, if two logging trucks are about to make a head-on collision because they don't know the other is about to come around the corner, that's a sound nob

Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary Pacific - Unit 12 Halfmoon Bay has had a busy couple of weeks responding to six separate incidents. At 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug.

Organizer Keith Duggan is happy that this year's Bonfire Music Festival, the music and celebration event in Pender Harbour, is taking place at all. Last year's heavy rain and lack of audience nearly choked chances for a fourth annual festival.

Neighbours on their knees in prayer, winds that suddenly switched directions saving other homes and aiding firefighters' efforts and the victim declaring, "God said, 'Clean it up.

Unique challenges face business owners, and sometimes the only people who understand that are other business owners.

The suspicious fire total now stands at 18. The latest suspected arson took place in Gibsons on Thursday night, July 31, when Gibsons firefighters and Sunshine Coast RCMP responded to a structure fire in the 600 block of Seaview Lane just after 11 p.

The chairs of the coast's 12 Ferry Advisory Committees (FAC) are asking Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon to meet with them to work on a strategy for the long-term sustainability of ferry service to their communities as substantial fuel surcharges

The Seaside Centre, a place built by volunteer master craftsmen from the Timber Framers Guild, was the location for a special graduation last month.