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Directors at the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) are asking a landowner who wants to remove property form the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) to return to the drawing board.

A provincial referral for a floating work camp and log handling facility in Area A was endorsed by directors, subject to a number of conditions.

Gibsons council has given first reading to the zoning and official community plan (OCP) changes for a supportive housing project at the old RCMP site on School Road, in the face of vocal opposition from neighbours who packed the public gallery during

Two yellow cedar trees on the Sunshine Coast are among more than 50 getting special protection from the province.

Byng Giraud says he will be moving on to other opportunities

The Sunshine Coast has lost a leader whose public life spanned shíshálh Nation politics, municipal politics and regional district politics. Former shíshálh chief Stan Dixon died this week at the age of 77 from complications of a serious stroke.

The Chatelech drag racing team was forced to drop out of a race last weekend after an attempt was made to hotwire the team’s 1992 Ford Ranger.

The people behind a petition that called on the Town of Gibsons to abandon plans to build an affordable housing project on the Charman Creek Lands were back in front of councillors July 9 asking that the land be preserved as a park.

Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors are asking the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) for a moratorium on so-called “dark site” cannabis growing greenhouses in the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR).

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for July 9 to July 16 Impaired Driving - Drugs • On July 9 at approximately 8 p.m. a single vehicle with one occupant drove off the road and down an embankment in Roberts Creek.