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Town steps up response to persistent wastewater issue with chemical treatment and planned kitchen inspections

VICTORIA — Premier David Eby has called for the federal government to float more money for ferry users in British Columbia, adding that equal funding "is the answer," after Ottawa cut ferry rates in Atlantic Canada.

No injuries or equipment damage as a result of a sinkhole around a metre in depth developing in the Transit parking area at the Mason Road works yard, in West Sechelt, on Sunday, July 13.

Bird and animal contact account for seven per cent of power outages across the province, says BC Hydro spokesperson.

A trio of Sunshine Coast residents were among more than 220 people who took part in the Pulling Together Canoe Journey 2025. This year’s journey began at Tsawout First Nation on July 6 and concluded in Cowichan Territory on July 13.

Town invites residents to help shape growth, housing, and land use through summer outreach

A book released last month exploring the history of the extinct Coast Salish Woolly Dog — whose wool-like hair was a longtime mainstay of Coast Salish weaving traditions — is simultaneously a real-life mystery story and a new approach to the literature of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous storytellers.

One of the Sunshine Coast's most versatile artists has released a new album of music shaped by the bossa nova beats of renowned Brazilian-born virtuoso Celso Machado.

An annual wilderness concert series — which this weekend will launch its fourth summer of performances — has become one of the Living Forest Institute's longest-lived outreach initiatives.

The regional district's committee call was for the board to advise B.C. Timber Sales that “the SCRD does not support" logging in and near community drinking watersheds.