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A 50-year-old man is dead in the latest fire to hit the Sunshine Coast, although this one does not appear to be suspicious in nature. On Thursday night, Aug. 7, Sunshine Coast RCMP and the Gibsons fire department attended a trailer fire on Reed Road.

A chance encounter brought people together who otherwise would never have met - and it changed the future of everyone involved. Terry Umbach, John Mwendwa and the villagers of Ndandini in East Kenya are forever united because of the encounter.

Greg Amos/Staff Writer/i> A week-long coroner's inquest is revealing more than just terrible weather behind a fatal boat crash that killed 51-year-old Merrill "Spooner" Dixon near Deserted Bay in the upper reaches of Jervis Inlet almost a year and a

An evening at the Royal Canadian Legion was once such a Canadian tradition that Stan Rogers sang: "Friday night at the Legion when she's dancing with her man." It was a place for soldiers and officers to connect with their community.

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.