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The District of Sechelt is looking at an estimated bill of $10,000 in damages after vandals drove through freshly poured concrete at a job site in Sechelt on Jan. 17.

Arts and literacy got a recent funding boost thanks to grants from the federal government. John Weston, member of Parliament for West Vancouver - Sunshine Coast - Sea to Sky Country was on the Coast Jan.

Dakota Ridge was back in business on Jan. 11, but unseasonably warm temperatures and rain have kept the snow base down and created some wet conditions. "What really does it is the rain," parks planning coordinator Sam Adams said Tuesday.

Sechelt council approved its 2014 budget at the Jan. 15 regular council meeting, confirming that Sechelt residents won't see a tax increase this year. The $35.4-million budget includes $2.

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) is creating a regional economic development charter to coordinate development initiatives in their communities with support from the Island Coastal Economic Trust (ICET).

The New Brighton public dock on Gambier Island is now the property of Squamish First Nation. Transport Canada transferred the public port facility to a numbered company owned by Squamish Nation on Nov.

The first open house on Target Marine Hatcheries' plan to introduce aquaponics and trout roe processing to their operations caused some upset from a handful of people gathered at the Seaside Centre Jan. 13.

Although billed to take place early this year, Metro Vancouver has not set a date for public consultations on the proposal to build a $500-million garbage incinerator on Squamish Nation lands at Port Mellon.

They're mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.

One increase leads to another. That's the story with garbage collection fees in the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD), where staff recommended a five per cent increase this year to offset revenue losses from last year's hike in tipping fees.