Local News

At the recent summit with Powell River - Sunshine Coast - Sea to Sky Country Liberal MP Blair Wilson, municipal leaders raised the need for access to steady federal funding.

Upper Gibsons got a good tidying up on Monday, thanks to 19 energetic students, three local teachers, two civic-minded businessmen and a band of enthusiastic volunteers.

Abbotsford-based Columbia National Investments (CNI) has recently acquired more than 3,000 acres of land on the Sunshine Coast.

Organizers of the Bodhisattva Boot Camp have offered 10 workshops over a summer agenda.

Ferry commuters may be getting a tax break. The federal Conservative government has an-nounced that as of July 1, public transit users with monthly passes, including local ferry users, will be eligible for a tax credit.

With one week to go until the Gibsons Sea Cavalcade festival, the Town of Gibsons and Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCHA) have jointly issued a swimming advisory at Armours Beach Park after discovering unusually high levels of fecal coliform co

It was a whirlwind tour recently for the Choralations Children's Choir of School District No. 46. They arrived in Ottawa on a Wednesday and most of them returned the following Sunday.

The Sunshine Coast is in mourning after two well-known girls from Gibsons were killed in a tragic two-car accident on Hwy. 101 Wednesday morning.

Silverback, a 400-acre, 1,600-unit development that could potentially increase the population of Sechelt by 50 per cent, met with public resistance at this week's District of Sechelt planning meeting.

The Sechelt Indian Band's (SIB) application to the province to keep the Crown land at Egmont Point a protected area now has the support of the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD).