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The Sechelt Aquatic Centre and Gibsons and District Aquatic Centre will likely get a new youth pool and lane rental rate, after Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors voted in favour of the change at a May 23 board meeting.

District of Sechelt Coun. Alton Toth told Coast Reporter last Friday he had “no idea” why he was being thrown in jail, but he did have a plan for making his $500 bail. “I’m hoping I can raise it all at once by calling [former mayor] John Henderson.

People out on the water or strolling the beaches of B.C.’s coast are being asked to watch for dead, stranded or distressed grey whales as the massive mammals continue to die at a concerning rate.

Sechelt council has given three readings to amendments to the bylaw covering mobile vendors that will allow food trucks or other vendors that have been approved by the district to stay set up overnight.

Every summer growing up, Fiona Beaty's family would make the trip from Vancouver to Bowen Island, where she would spend her time playing in the woods and turning over rocks at the shore in her search for crabs.

Fix it, build it, plant it: The sunny weather outside didn’t distract hundreds of visitors from this year’s Home & Garden Expo, the 10th annual gathering of home- and garden-building and servicing businesses, with more than 50 vendors taking part in

A home in the 5200 block of Taylor Crescent in Halfmoon Bay was destroyed by fire Sunday morning. Sunshine Coast RCMP said they were called out to assist after the fire was reported around 8:38 a.m. and firefighters had already arrived on the scene.

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It’s been at least a dozen years in the making, but the third phase of the Tsain-Ko Village Shopping Centrein Sechelt is underway, officially marked with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of Tim Hortons on Friday, June 7.

Sechelt council has approved terms of reference for new committees A housing advisory committee, to be chaired by Coun.