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Gibsons Mayor Bill Beamish is hoping to have some sort of shelter space available for homeless people this winter, and he’s suggesting a recent infusion of safe restart funding could provide the money needed to make it happen.

BC Ferries says the provincial health orders that were put in place Nov. 8 for Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health, and expanded provincewide Nov.

Property managers are seeing a jump in demand for rental units on the Sunshine Coast since the start of the pandemic, while evictions also appear to be on the rise.

Sechelt is one of about 30 communities that qualify for help through the $19-million Tourism Dependent Communities Fund.

Provincial health officer strongly advises not travel outside a home health region for non-essential reasons

A Gibsons woman was scammed for thousands of dollars in what Sunshine Coast RCMP are calling “an elaborate variation on the popular ‘mystery shopper’ fraud.

The family of a Gibsons man who’s been missing since 2016 is appealing to people with information to come forward. Dane Stanway, 27, was reported missing from his home on Gilmour Road in Gibsons on May 12, 2016.

BC Ferries is planning a virtual meeting Nov. 25 to give Sunshine Coast residents their first look at what the working group formed earlier this fall has come up with.

As COVID-19 cases in the province spike, Premier John Horgan said Wednesday that non-essential travel is prohibited in B.C. for the next two weeks at least. “If you don’t need to travel, don’t travel,” said Horgan.

Southeast winds of 60 to 80 km/h developed overnight Monday as a strong Pacific low swept through the south coast Nov. 17, cutting power to homes on the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and Sunshine Coast.