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This time next year Sechelt will be home to the only year-round mountain bike gravity park in the Pacific Northwest, able to offer a unique coastal experience.

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) is moving toward setting zoning regulations for medical marijuana production under Ottawa's new rules that take effect on April 1, 2014. At its Oct.

Sechelt council will consider first reading of a new trap regulatory bylaw next month, although not without protest from Coun. Doug Hockley who doesn't think it goes far enough.

A senior official with Calgary-based Burnco Rock Products has downplayed the fact his company started legal proceedings against the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) in 2010, after the department refused to authorize an environmental assessmen

A networking mixer to encourage strong female leadership in the community also offered some reasoning behind powHERhouse- - Gibsons Coun. Charlene SanJenko's new endeavor that fulfills a dream dating back to her arrival on the Coast.

Local government officials and environmentalists are decrying the decision by BC Timber Sales (BCTS) to move ahead with plans for logging about 53 hectares of old-growth forest in the Dakota Creek community watershed on Mount Elphinstone.

The District of Sechelt has officially entered into a partnership with Sechelt Innovations Ltd. (SIL) the business development group aimed at creating more business opportunities in Sechelt.

The Sunshine Coast Trails Society (SCTS) and Lees and Associates are in the process of completing their regional trail strategy for early next year.

Sunshine Coast RCMP and Commercial Vehicles Commission are investigating the cause of a single-vehicle collision involving a logging truck in Madeira Park. At approximately 10:22 a.m. Wednesday morning, Oct.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for Oct. 15 to 22: On Oct. 15 RCMP received a report of a large theft of copper from St. Mary's Hospital, believed to have occurred sometime in August.