Local News

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) has expressed interest in acquiring ownership of the New Brighton dock after receiving word that Transport Canada might be giving it up.

Sunshine Coast Tourism (SCT) is one step closer to adopting a new hotel tax that will potentially triple the region's current tourism budget.

In the wake of a scathing audit of the B.C. legislature's financial books, the expenses of MLAs have come under fire.

A geotechnical report into the sinkhole found on Seawatch Lane says more sinkholes, springs and landslides could occur in the future at the Seawatch at The Shores development. The report compiled by Thurber Engineering Ltd.

An entire stock of salmon at a fish farm in Culloden Point has now been culled following a confirmed outbreak of infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN) virus. The area is located beyond Saltery Bay in Jervis Inlet.

The Sechelt Indian Band (SIB) launched a class action lawsuit against the government of Canada this week in an attempt to gain compensation for day scholars who attended residential schools.

Fundraising for the annual Cops for Cancer begins on Saturday with a unique event in Davis Bay. Riders from the Sunshine Coast RCMP will be at the Davis Bay seawall near the pier from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 18.

Just weeks before a new gate could be erected in order to save the site from unwanted visitors, vandals caused about $2,000 in damage on Dakota Ridge. Sometime between July 16 and Aug.

The bylaws that allow Target Marine Hatcheries to harvest sturgeon for caviar on-site are being challenged for a third time by Tillicum Bay resident Shirley Kuciuk, to the dismay of Sechelt Mayor John Henderson.

Locals and visitors got a taste of Shishalh culture in one of their most sacred spaces Aug. 9 when the Sechelt Indian Band opened their longhouse to the public for a traditional performance.