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Councillors in Sechelt are making some adjustments to the budget in an effort to lower the projected tax increase. Heading into the March 13 committee of the whole meeting the proposed budget would have required a tax increase of 12.95 per cent.

An accessible playground at Roberts Creek Elementary is one of the 50 projects getting funding through the provincial government’s Playground Equipment Program. School District No. 46 (SD46) will get $105,000 for the new playground in Roberts Creek.

The Sechelt Seniors Activity Centre was transformed into a 1950s high school prom dance on March 16 for the Fab ‘50s Dinner and Dance, the inaugural event of The Coast Social Events Co.

Hundreds of students from elementary and high schools across the Sunshine Coast skipped school to rail against what they say is political torpor preventing decisive action on climate change.

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The province has officially launched its new Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) Entrepreneur Immigration Regional Pilot.

Former federal fisheries minister David Anderson expects that “substantial restrictions” in catch will be needed to save chinook salmon along the West Coast.

Father of three was an arborist, and greensman for the film industry

104-unit Arbutus building will replace hall and remaining cottages on Ocean Avenue property

With no indication the state of emergency and evacuation order covering the Seawatch subdivision will be lifted in the near future, Mayor Darnelda Siegers met Tuesday with officials from the province to discuss how to move forward.