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The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) has just received another successful independent auditor's report for its 2012 financial statements.

Although she's already known as a rising star on the Sunshine Coast, local maker of Holy Crap cereal Corin Mullins might earn the title officially next month.

The Sunshine Coast needs at least four more hospice beds, as well as more residential care beds, more than 100 people heard at a community forum on palliative care recently.

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) is developing new rules for the screening and handling of asbestos in landfills.

The District of Sechelt has committed to partially funding the Sechelt Arts Festival for the next three years, but eventually they want to see the annual event become self-sufficient.

Secretary Treasurer Nicholas Weswick presented a balanced budget for adoption at the May 14 School District No. 46 (SD46) board meeting.

Sechelt's wastewater treatment project coordinator Paul Nash gave the first of what he hopes will be regular updates on the project during Sechelt's May 15 regular council meeting.

The shíshálh (Sechelt) First Nation has created a policy document that is being hailed by the leader of the BC Assembly of First Nations as an important tool for Aboriginal governance.

Sechelt Coun. Alice Lutes is trying to save Sechelt some money by avoiding duplication of legal requests, but a motion to that effect was defeated May 1.

School District No. 46 (SD46) wants parents to be aware that not all grad trips are condoned by the district after representatives from S-Trip! were recently asked to leave the school grounds of Chatelech Secondary School.