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Twenty-two Coast firefighters are better prepared to rescue people from collapsed buildings thanks to a special course designed by the Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services Heavy Urban Search and Rescue (HUSAR) team.

BC Timber Sales (BCTS) has decided to drop the cutblock known as the Roberts Creek headwaters ancient forest from its future harvesting plans, BCTS planning forester Norm Kempe has confirmed.

As we get ready to set our clocks back an hour this Saturday night for the end of Daylight Saving Time, ICBC is asking drivers to take extra care on the roads as the time change can affect us all in different ways.

Implementing priorities from the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) parks and recreation master plan will require a more "community-focused" approach, but not necessarily more money, SCRD directors heard last week.

The public will get a final chance to comment on the transit future plan for the Sunshine Coast later this month, with a revised draft that attempts to soften the ride for the plan's critics.

Sechelt Innovations Ltd. (SIL) officially launched with much fanfare, champagne and caviar on Oct. 30.

At a meeting on Oct. 30, Sechelt council announced that funding, approvals and partnerships are now in place for the $25 million wastewater treatment plant being built in Sechelt. Council was waiting on written confirmation of $11.

A new cold weather shelter is set to start up in mid-November with a mandate to operate until the end of March, but more funding is needed to keep the doors open past December.

Starbucks Coffee Company will be the new tenant in the former McDonald's outlet in Gibsons Park Plaza at 1100 Highway 101. The coffee giant's plans were disclosed in a staff report presented at Gibsons council's Oct.

The B.C. government has pledged $500,000 toward the shíshálh (Sechelt) Nation's equity investment in Renewable Power Corporation's Narrows Inlet hydro project. The funding was announced Oct.