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Water and sewer charges in Gibsons are each expected to go up five per cent again this year as the Town continues with a long-term plan aimed at “a self-sustaining water [and sewer] fund with sufficient reserves to address short and long-term operati

Crews have started demolition work at the former RCMP detachment site in Gibsons, which is slated to become a 40-unit supportive housing building. BC Housing received zoning and official community plan approval for the project on Dec. 17, 2019.

An attempt by the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) to get a regional allowance to subsidize RCMP staff has been met with an unexpected setback – the Mounties’ recently formed union.

Sechelt council has started work on the district’s 2020 operating budget. At a committee of the whole meeting Jan.

Those eager for the results of a long-anticipated review of Highway 101 will have to be a little more patient.

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Squamish-based Black Mount Logging has been granted an injunction against Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF), which has been preventing the company from cutting timber on cutblock A93884, known as the Clack Creek Forest, since Jan. 12.

The shíshálh Nation announced Friday that it has purchased the Porpoise Bay land that was the proposed Sechelt Sustainable Community (SSC) site for $15 million. The announcement follows the B.C. Supreme Court’s approval of the sale on Jan. 23.

Three members of the Coulson family are on their way to Australia following the crash of their C-130 Hercules firefighting air tanker in New South Wales, which killed all three crew members. “We are all terribly sad about this.

A service will be held at Devlin Funeral Home on Monday, Jan. 27 for Clint Davy, co-founder of the Gibsons Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre. Davy died on Jan. 18 with his wife Irene by his side.