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Environment Canada says an “unseasonably strong” Pacific frontal system is bearing down on B.C.’s south coast, bringing heavy rain to the Sunshine Coast area Thursday afternoon. In a special weather statement issued Aug.

Tucked into a nondescript building complex on Gibsons Way is a little technology company with big, electric ambitions. “The days of the old grid are over,” Don Bildfell, founder of Cypress Power, told Coast Reporter.

A 55-year-old man celebrated a new kind of birthday on Wednesday. “I’m completely feeling like I’m reborn,” said Carl Pendleton from his home at Poplar Estates outside of Gibsons.

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So much lumber is accumulating at the Sechelt dump and Pender Harbour Transfer Station that they are running out of room, forcing the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) to find a quick, interim fix.

Councillors in Gibsons are hoping to use a foreshore improvement project as an opportunity to deal with what they see as an eyesore and a hazard – the abandoned boat cradle at the old Coles Marine site.

Transportation Minister Claire Trevena has asked ministry staff to conduct a new speed survey along the portion of Highway 101 between the Gibsons town boundary and the Woodcreek Park neighbourhood in Elphinstone.

The Sunshine Coast Electric Vehicle Association (SCEVA) held the First Annual Sunshine Coast EV Count on July 27.

More money is going towards locating and protecting northern goshawk breeding grounds on the Sunshine Coast. Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation (HCTF), a B.C.-based conservation non-profit, and the Forest Enhancement Society of B.C.

The Town of Gibsons is looking for voter approval for another major infrastructure loan. At its July 30 meeting, council authorized an Alternative Approval Process (APP) for borrowing of up to $3.