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Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for Dec. 17 to Jan. 5: On Jan.

Former Sunshine Coast ElderCollege board member Laurean Reid will be presented with the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers by Sechelt Mayor Darnelda Siegers on Jan. 10 at 2 p.m. at the Seaside Centre.

A 16-year-old Chatelech Secondary student was hoping the genetic testing kit she got for her birthday would reveal new information about her health – instead, it revealed she has two sisters.

Sechelt dropped to 32nd in BC Business magazine’s annual survey of Best Cities for Work in B.C., after ranking 12th last year, its first year of eligibility.

Conservation officers have destroyed 22 black bears on the Sunshine Coast since April 2019 – an increase from last year’s nine and the previous year’s 16.

A B.C. environmental group is calling on the province to outfit conservation officers with body cameras to create more accountability when killing bears. The measure is one of the three recommendations Pacific Wild put forward in a Jan.

The proponents behind a development project slated for the intersection of Wharf Avenue and East Porpoise Bay Road in Sechelt have come back to the table with more design changes.

The Town of Gibsons is expected to make a call this month for members to sit on a public art advisory committee. The Town set up a similar committee in 2006, but it was eventually disbanded.

In this episode of Coast Reporter Radio we head down to Armour’s Beach to speak with the adult winner of the best costume contest at the Gibsons New Year’s Day polar bear dip.

BC Ferries was running a modified schedule Friday on the Langdale-Horseshoe Bay route “due to adverse weather conditions anticipated this evening and in order to proactively position our vessels for tonight and tomorrow,” as the ferry system copes wi