Local News

The Halfmoon Bay Coast Guard Auxiliary's new search and rescue boat has finally arrived, after three years of community fundraising.

A local Aboriginal man took his canoe on a journey down the Peace River to heal youth from an Alberta reserve who had been caught sniffing gas.

The Keats Island community came together in a panic to put out a sauna fire last Saturday night. Neighbours and boaters arrived at the scene as the news of the fire spread through shouting and phone calls.

Lynne Dickson and the Music Makers adult choir are hosting a second Experience the Journey gospel music workshop and concert with Vancouver choral leaders Marcus Mosely and Gail Suderman Sept. 24 to 25.

For many of us, the dreams we have as children are soon forgotten. But that's not always the case, as a pair of Sunshine Coast sisters will attest. When Barby Paulus and Marjorie Ann Malcolm were young, they lived in Ontario.

On Saturday the Roberts Creek community celebrates Creek Daze, and the whole Coast is invited. Music, vendors, games and prizes all take place at the Roberts Creek pier starting at noon. Activities are free and fun for the whole family.

School will start on schedule in September, but later in the month teachers will vote on whether to authorize a strike.

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.