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A 28-foot Bayliner pleasure craft caught fire at Plumper Cove on Keats Island on Tuesday afternoon, with no passengers onboard.

Shíshálh Chief Warren Paull speaks at the funeral for Stan Dixon. The former chief and shíshálh elder was laid to rest July 27 following a ceremony at the shíshálh Nation longhouse attended by nearly 300 people.

The 2019 version of the mandala at Roberts Creek Pier has been completed. Among the dozens of volunteers who contributed painting time to this year's effort are Anna Schuhbauer, here with daughter Zia, 2.

Gibsons Public Market

Sunshine Coast RCMP say a heavy police presence on Gambier Island July 28 and 29 was due to a search for a lost party-goer.

Updated July 31: Three passengers walked away without injuries after the float plane they were in crashed in the ocean west of Davis Bay early Tuesday afternoon. The privately owned Beaver float plane was shuttling between Vancouver and Ruby Lake.

Hundreds of people descended on Gibsons’ Winegarden Park on Saturday for the town’s first Lantern Festival. “We had a constant stream of people making lanterns from 4 p.m. right until the end, which I did not expect,” said organizer Verna Chan.

Sunshine Coast Tourism (SCT) is getting ready to renew its accommodation tax and the destination marketing organization is predicting it will be easier to get support this time around.

BC Ferries is predicting the August long weekend will, once again, be one of the busiest travel times of the year on the ferry system.

Tributes are pouring in online to remember a man believed to be the pilot of the float plane that crashed on a remote B.C. island. The chartered flight was on its way to Calvert Island, a popular recreational spot, when it crashed around 11 a.m.