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Gibsons council has voted to approve a $1,050,000 contract for a new water system booster station at Parkland as part of the Town’s plan to switch Zone 3 from Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) water onto the aquifer.

Some members of Sechelt council are hoping for bigger financial contributions from other local jurisdictions for the library and the police-based victim services program.

Gibsons council may soon join the ranks of B.C. local governments that have sent “climate accountability” letters to major fossil-fuel producers, but they aren’t prepared to take that step just yet. Councillors heard Nov.

Ten Sunshine Coast businesses are up for Small Business BC Awards, across several categories and, in some cases, in multiple categories.

If approved, it would be the largest and most expensive infrastructure project the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) has every tackled. Directors voted Nov.

Rona dealer-owners Russ and Tess Jones celebrated the grand opening of their new Rona Appliance & Design Showroom by Coast Builders in Gibsons Nov. 21, officially adding the store to their two other Rona locations in Madeira Park and Sechelt.

The University of Northern British Columbia and the University of Alberta are conducting studies to learn more about how firefighting activities affect the health of fire crews.

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The clock is ticking on the warm working relationship between Premier John Horgan and B.C. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver.

Councillors in Sechelt have decided not to act, for now at least, on calls from the Davis Bay-Wilson Creek-Selma Park Community Association to ban fishing and crabbing from the Davis Bay wharf.