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The Municipal Regional District Tax (MRDT) – also known as the hotel tax – has “essentially dropped off a cliff,” according to Sunshine Coast Tourism (SCT) executive director Paul Kamon, leaving the organization in a lurch, along with other tourism-d

Dear Fellow Sunshine Coast Residents: As we continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 situation on the Sunshine Coast, we remain in a holding pattern from the end of last week.

Responding to a special time of need, local organizers from the faith community and area service clubs are building a harmonized effort to help stock the shelves for the anticipated increased demand for the Sunshine Coast’s food bank services.

The Ministry of Environment, in collaboration with provincial public health partners, has imposed open burning restrictions for “high smoke sensitivity zones” in the province as a strategy to help people with COVID-19 or other respiratory illnesses.

A temporary, mobile shelter constructed by a pair of homeless people and seen frequently in Sechelt over the last few months was destroyed by fire March 29. The fire occurred in the parking lot of the Sechelt Legion on Wharf Avenue.

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has made some of the COVID-19 precautions already being used by Sunshine Coast grocery stores official “guidance” for grocery and retail stores.

Local governments on the Sunshine Coast are scaling back the number of COVID-19 bulletins they’ll be posting.

BC Corrections says it is assessing some non-violent offenders for possible early release as it deals with the global pandemic

Dr. Sean Wormsbecker of Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster and Eagle Ridge Hospital in Port Moody said hospitals are sending home symptomatic patients without testing them, he's concerned people won't follow quarantine direction

To date, 396 people have recovered from the coronavirus in B.C.