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The Coastal Fire Centre is instituting a ban on most open burning activities throughout its jurisdiction.

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) has received approval from electors to borrow up to $9 million over a 30-year term to fund the Church Road Well Field project.

Warmer temperatures and increased demand have staff predicting a call for Stage 3 water restrictions in a few weeks time.

District camping and vanlife ban a near certainty after three readings of bylaw passed by council

RCMP have arrested one person in connection with a hoax phone call that left the Lynn Valley Care Centre drastically understaffed during the early days of the pandemic.

Sunshine Coast RCMP say officers responded to a call about a man with a gun at the Friendship Park pier July 20.

More than 3,000 BC Hydro customers in the Sechelt area experienced power outages July 20 in two separate incidents involving downed wires that caused small brush fires.

A final tally of calls and emails about large increases to utility bills has come in and it’s a lot more larger than the “way over 200 calls” initially estimated by Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) staff (“SCRD inundated with calls about water

Sunshine Coast Regional District directors decided to support renewing the Municipal regional District Tax (MRDT) at two per cent, but not without pushback from at least two directors suggesting it should have been raised.

Sechelt has added the construction of an outdoor stage at Hackett Park to this year’s work plan after the project was approved for $185,525 from the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program.