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A Langley pilot made an emergency landing in the field of Elphinstone Secondary School on Sunday afternoon after experiencing mechanical issues in the air near Gibsons.

Sechelt's Alicia Pickering doesn't want anyone else to suffer the way she has for the past five years, so she's leading a class action lawsuit against Pfizer Canada Inc.

Gibsons' 45th Sea Cavalcade was a calmer, gentler affair than last year's festival, with Sunshine Coast RCMP reporting no arrests during the weekend.

Effective at noon on Thursday, Aug. 1, all open fires, including campfires are banned in all areas of the Coastal Fire Centre, except for the Fog Zone and Haida Gwaii.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for July 23 to 30: On July 23, police located a male sleeping in his vehicle parked in the middle of Highway 101 near Norwest Bay Road in Sechelt.

On July 30 at approximately 6:40 a.m., Sunshine Coast RCMP attended the 5700 block of Genni's Way in Sechelt for multiple reports of mischief that occurred sometime overnight.

The provincial board of the BC Conservative Party has set the weekend of April 11, 2014 as the date for a leadership convention to replace John Cummins. Cummins tendered his resignation to the board last week.

Soon after the Sea Cavalcade fireworks subsided Sunday night, a vehicle was set ablaze just north of Armours Beach in the 700 block of Marine Drive in Gibsons.

Save for changes to council's expenses and remunerations, the District of Sechelt's draft 2012 annual report should stay the same until council adopts it in early August.

Developer David Sangara said the trees he cut down on the lower half of his property along Highway 101 in Sechelt were smaller than 60 centimetres wide and therefore allowed to go, although an arbourist's report to that effect was never submitted to