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Directors on the SCRD’s infrastructure committee are recommending changes to arena operations that would see ice remain in the Sunshine Coast Arena in Sechelt until April 30 this year, and until the end of May starting in 2020.

An online map that can display more than 140 “layers” of information about Howe Sound’s ecology is set to be revealed at a public event in Gibsons next week.

B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix says he expects mandatory reporting of vaccinations to be in place for the start of school in September.

The syiyaya Reconciliation Movement held a Cultural Tour and Weaver Honouring event at the tems swiya Museum Feb. 22. Pictured is Museum curator Raquel Joe, whose work has been loomed up ready for weaving in the coming weeks.

An electrical overload is suspected in a fire that damaged a garage and workshop at a property in West Porpoise Bay on Monday. The Sechelt Fire Department was called out just after 5 p.m.

Directors at the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) are going to wait before sending recommendations to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) on a proposed 13-lot subdivision on Largo Road in Roberts Creek.

A dormant residents’ association has been resurrected in the Egmont area and longtime resident and retired law educator Rick Craig has been elected its president.

Sunshine Coast RCMP say the man living in an apartment in the 5600 block of Inlet Avenue was lucky to walk away Monday morning after a butane stove exploded. According to RCMP, he was using the stove around 11:20 a.m. when it caught fire.

The man charged with threatening youths at a Sechelt skate park with a pellet gun has been sentenced to more than 300 days in jail and will be banned for life from owning or possessing firearms. Tristan McDougall was charged after a Jan.

The Sunshine Coast Regional District’s (SCRD) infrastructure committee has recommended spending a further $350,000 on reservoir feasibility studies. The committee heard from Integrated Sustainability Consultants at the Feb.