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The recreation area at John Phare (Wormy) Lake is a lot more inviting this week thanks to a dozen volunteers organized by Sunshine Coast Offroad.

22 firefighters, one officer, and a helicopter on scene

The father of a seven-year-old boy who was attacked by a cougar in Lake Cowichan on Friday says the boy’s mother jumped on top of the animal and pried its jaw open to save her son. “She’s the hero,” Kevin Bromley told CHEK News.

Sunshine Coast Hospice Society members Donna Shugar and Denis Fafard appeared at a regional hospital district board meeting Thursday to request support in their efforts to secure more hospice beds on the Sunshine Coast, a need for which Shugar called

B.C.’s conflict of interest commissioner, Paul Fraser, died Friday after a brief illness. He was 78. Fraser was serving his third term as conflict commissioner after being appointed in 2008.

On other days they are flimsy plastic beach buckets, but on Monday they were vital transportation vessels occupied by aquatic invertebrates ready to be ferried back to the wilds of Howe Sound.

Tree removal has begun at Gospel Rock as developer Greenlane Homes prepares to build roads into the area and clear its first building site.

The five Charles Murray carvings in the photograph accompanying this article are part of a collection donated to the Sechelt Community Archives by his wife, the late Alice Murray.

Councillors in Sechelt have been tweaking their capital spending priorities as the deadline for adopting a new financial plan draws closer, and Mayor Darnelda Siegers is hoping to see treatment and distribution of reclaimed water from the Water Resou

Four projects in the Powell River area and on the Sunshine Coast are benefitting from $204,260 in BC Rural Dividend Grants.