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Fisheries and Oceans Canada Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is defending his government’s new restrictions that will severely curtail fishing for the at-risk Fraser River chinook salmon.

Gibsons is the first local government on the Sunshine Coast to proclaim May as Active Transportation Month. Transportation Choices Sunshine Coast (TraC) wants Active Transportation Month to build on the idea of Bike to Work Week.

The Sunshine Coast’s local governments have released a trail guide for people with mobility challenges.

BC Ferries says the Queen of Surrey is repaired and ready to resume sailings on the Langdale-Horseshoe Bay run. The Surrey has been out of service since a March 26 accident that left travellers stranded on board for more than 10 hours.

About $400,000 was spent on the Chapman drawdown project and now that the province has rejected it, some Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors think the SCRD should be reimbursed by the B.C. government.

Four Coast elementary schools hosted a friendly, interschool Energy Conservation event last week – Davis Bay, Halfmoon Bay, Langdale and Roberts Creek Elementary.

Gibsons Mayor Bill Beamish wants to challenge town residents to go a day using only 50 litres of water. Beamish proclaimed May as “Gibsons Water Month” at the April 16 council meeting.

A group behind efforts to establish a co-op for B.C.’s small cannabis producers says “without a significant change in approach by the federal government, British Columbia’s globally recognized craft cannabis sector will not survive legalization.

A Victoria woman is launching what’s likely to be the first constitutional challenge to changes in Canada’s impaired-driving laws. Norma McLeod, a 76-year-old cancer survivor, has applied to the B.C.

Gibsons council is putting off the decision on grants of assistance after councillors said they didn’t have enough information to feel comfortable choosing which groups will get money.