Local News

Elections BC has released the poll-by-poll vote counts from the provincial election and they show much of the growth in the Green vote in Powell River-Sunshine Coast came from the Sechelt and Roberts Creek areas.

Sea to Sky MP says he understands issue, but restrictions should be expected for 2021 to protect stocks of concern

Sechelt council gave unanimous second reading Nov. 18 to zoning amendments for the Sunshine Coast Community Services housing project at 5638 Inlet Ave.

Evie Clarke, a Grade 11 student at Elphinstone Secondary, has been sworn in as Gibsons’ newest youth councillor. Clarke is the fifth youth councillor since the program began in 2018 and the first to be sworn in over Zoom.

Dear Fellow Sunshine Coast Residents: While the latest local COVID-19 data showed we had only three new COVID-19 cases on the lower Sunshine Coast during the month of October, it does not reflect the reality of the last couple of weeks.

Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors are declaring the rural food waste collection program a success after reviewing data from the program’s first five weeks.

Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) is hoping to get the Sunshine Coast Community Forest to drop an area near East Wilson Creek from its logging plans. The Community Forest and its operating company Sechelt Community Projects Inc.

Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 has been proclaimed “Buy Local Week” by councils in Gibsons and Sechelt.

New rules are coming to the Coopers Green boat launch following a summer of intense debate about how the free, public access ramp is used and by whom.

Sunshine Coast RCMP have arrested a suspect after responding to a 911 robbery call at the Daily Roast at 1-5580 Wharf Ave. in Sechelt. The call came in at about 8 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 20.