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Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for Feb. 8 to 15: On Feb.

It’s the community’s hope that by 2041, ‘Horseshoe Bay will thrive as a charming and livable seaside community and a vibrant and welcoming destination village’ Elisia Seeber /North Shore News It has been a couple of years in the making, but the Distr

Physicians poll patients a second time to determine community opinion

This female belted kingfisher can regularly be seen fishing on and around the Roberts Creek Pier breakwater. Here she’s caught a sculpin. The belted kingfisher was famously depicted on the 1986 series Canadian $5 note.

School District No. 46 trustees voted to adopt the 2021 amended budget at a regular board meeting Feb. 10, with changes revealing the impact of COVID-19 on the district.

Several District of Sechelt departments put staffing requests to council as part of an ongoing review of operating budgets for 2021. A total of six full-time equivalent (FTE) requests were made at the Feb. 10 committee of the whole meeting.

He wants to buy a new barbecue with some of the money

Between Jan. 31 and Feb. 6 there was only one confirmed case of COVID-19 on the Sunshine Coast, the lowest case count in almost a month. The last time the Sunshine Coast saw only one positive case was the week starting Jan.

Sechelt suffered from an outsized number of overdose calls last year, according to data from BC Emergency Health Services. Paramedics responded to 87 overdose calls in 2020, compared with 41 in 2019. It’s far higher than the previous four years.

A Sunshine Coast couple say they are lucky to be alive after surviving a collision on the Coquihalla Highway outside of Hope on Wednesday morning involving at least two dozen vehicles. “It was a nightmare,” said Buddy Boyd of Gibsons.