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Sechelt Mayor Darnelda Siegers made it clear at a Feb. 3 regular council meeting that she wants to see a draft of a revamped zoning bylaw sooner than later. She acknowledged staff’s heavy workload before asking for a timeline.

District of Sechelt councillors had a first look at a draft policy at a Feb. 3 regular council meeting intended to create guidelines and forge a balance between developer and public input for naming roads in the municipality.

While the Sunshine Coast Affordable Housing Society is nearing completion of a three-unit building on Franklin Road, its far more ambitious Shaw Road project has been stalled after it was denied funding by BC Housing and Canadian Mortgage and Housing

A second instalment of School District No. 46’s $1.1 million in federal COVID-19 relief funding has been announced.

Only four cases reported from Jan. 24 to 30

Resort had 547 cases between Jan. 1 and Feb. 2

At least three local victims, more than a dozen in Metro Vancouver

Since mid-November, one helicopter and one plane, based in Nanaimo, have been responding to patients up and down Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and Sunshine Coast, including Powell River.

Cruise ships won’t be returning to Victoria this summer, to the disappointment of hundreds of businesses that rely on passenger spending.

FAC chair voices concern over low engagement numbers