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The Conservation Officer Service (COS) is hoping to hear from anyone with information about two otter carcasses found in Roberts Creek.

RainCity Housing says its two homeless shelters were running at – and sometimes over – capacity during the blast of winter weather earlier this month. A series of storms rolled through the area from Jan.

Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors voted at a Jan. 23 committee meeting to move ahead with a review of how they are compensated for their work using an independent taskforce.

“Euphoric” is the word Pender Harbour resident Brad Clarke used to describe his feeling when, documents in hand, he’d realized the delay was over. “[I] just couldn’t believe it. After a seven-year wait, it felt surreal.

Gibsons council has voted to give pre-budget approval for a series of infrastructure projects, including a $60,000 transfer from reserves for renovations to the Town-owned building at 494 South Fletcher Rd., beside Town Hall.

New equipment and capital upgrades worth $3.4 million are coming to Sechelt Hospital, pending budget adoption. A list of needed medical equipment was detailed by Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) director Gerry Latham at the Jan.

Last Respects

A full house at the top of Field Road last Thursday brought into sharp relief the concern rippling through neighbourhoods where residents are facing steep increases in their wastewater treatment bills.

A homegrown initiative that combines music and education to inspire youth is coming back to the Sunshine Coast.

BC Centre for Disease Control working with hospitals to monitor outbreak