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Vancouver Coastal Health is teaming up with the University of British Columbia and Fraser Health to find out more about how healthy British Columbians are.

June permit revenue for the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) was the lowest in 10 years, chief building inspector Peter Longhi reported at the July 25 corporate and administrative services committee meeting.

Come this fall Sunshine Coast residents will likely find themselves answering the door to a canvasser and being asked to sign a petition to decriminalize pot.

For the second consecutive year, students from Kyoritsu high school outside Tokyo are visiting the Sunshine Coast for two weeks in a cultural exchange hosted by Muskoka Language International.

The District of Sechelt has just been given a level two Climate Action Award for completing a corporate carbon inventory in 2012.

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) gave the green light last week to the Box Canyon power project at McNab Creek, after directors decided not to hold a second public information meeting on the Lower Mainland.

The Sechelt volunteer fire department was busy on July 25 with five calls for service in one day, two of which were at the same time. "We don't get any calls for a week and then two at the same time.

Outraged by revelations that residential school students had been systematically undernourished as part of a government-run experiment, First Nations people and their supporters took to the streets on July 25 as part of a day of prayer and protest.

The Sunshine Coast SPCA is asking for donations to help give Rocko, a severely abused five-year-old Labrador mix, a second chance at a happy, pain-free life.

A 52-year-old Roberts Creek man sustained minor injuries after wiping out on his bicycle while travelling on Highway 101 near Conrad Road in Roberts Creek Friday morning (Aug. 1).