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Lt.-Gov. Janet Austin will be making her first official visit to the Sunshine Coast this weekend, but there’s only one public event on the itinerary.

Fire crews now have a small wildfire that flared up Tuesday afternoon on Nelson Island under control. The fire, near Annis Bay on the island’s southern slopes, was visible from the Earls Cove ferry landing.

If you asked municipal election candidates in Gibsons last year to predict the issues that might polarize the community, fireworks would probably have been well down the list, if it made the list at all.

Organizers of a Green New Deal town hall in Davis Bay last Sunday say the event drew an overflow crowd to the Davis Bay Community Hall.

After nearly a decade at St. Hilda’s Anglican Church in Sechelt, Rev. Clarence Li is resigning to assume the role of executive director of the Sunshine Coast Association for Community Living (SCACL).

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for May 20 to 27: • On May 21, police assisted the Gibsons Volunteer Fire Department with a travel trailer on fire in the 1100 block of Malaview Road, Gibsons.

Just two weeks after a motion from Powell River-Sunshine Coast MLA Nicholas Simons that the legislature “affirm its opposition to the practice of conversion therapy for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, questioning, transgender, queer, two-spirited, intersex

A series of events dubbed Water Dialogues has been scheduled for early June, as part of the Sunshine Coast Regional District’s (SCRD) efforts to communicate with the public about the region’s water situation.

The Sunshine Coast chapter of Special Olympics BC celebrated its 25th anniversary on May 26 with a family picnic in Dougall Park in Gibsons.

“Everybody in this school can find a way to connect with that rainbow,” said Deborah Luporini, principal of Gibsons Elementary, while standing in a classroom with a cluster of Grade 5 and 6 students eager to explain the origins of the bright new addi