Local News

Cara and Mike Steward and their two preschool children lost everything but the clothes they were wearing when their West Porpoise Bay home burned down Aug. 23.

A man is dead after a diving accident in Sechelt Inlet Thursday afternoon.B.C. Ambulance paramedics met a red Zodiac transporting the stricken man at the Porpoise Bay dock just before noon and brought him to St. Mary's Hospital.

Pan Pacific Aggregates and the Sechelt Indian Band council have been drafting a memorandum of understanding to establish the terms of a relationship and a working partnership between the two parties. As of Aug.

Vanessa McLean promised her sons Sam and Matthew Jackson they would have a home of their own someday.After many years of ups and downs, and thanks to Habitat for Humanity, McLean has finally made good on her promise.

Camp Sunrise is celebrating 80 years of fun, friendship and fellowship this month at the Christian campground that has hosted thousands of youth, adults and seniors from around B.C. since it opened in 1925.

Be at the front of the line for this year's hottest read. Gibsons and District Public Library announces the launch of its first Coast-wide book club, One Book on the Coast, with Andrew Pyper's The Wildfire Season.

What could 24,000 students, 800 teachers, three continents and 25 years be all about? Music for Young Children (MYC), established in 1980 in Ontario, has arrived on the Coast.

Tess Orlando, the former top health administrator for the Sunshine Coast and Powell River, has won a wrongful dismissal lawsuit against the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. In B.C. Supreme Court July 22, Justice J.D.

With shovels in hand, members of Habitat for Humanity Sunshine Coast officially broke ground on their first housing project this week.

About 150 people came out to Pan Pacific Aggregates' community open forum Aug. 10 to have questions answered about the proposed mine sites above Porpoise Bay. Sechelt Indian Band elders Theresa Jeffries and Jamie Dixon opened with a prayer.