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SCRD hosts successful workshop

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD), in partnership with Friends of Forage Fish, hosted a successful public workshop on shorelines and forage fish Monday, Sept. 9 at the SCRD office on Field Road.

Community clean up tackles illegal dumping

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) is inviting all members of the community to participate in a "backroad trash bash" next Saturday, Sept. 28. The event will focus on cleaning up illegal dumpsites from Port Mellon to Roberts Creek.

Coasters tackle Concrete Hero

A team of eight Coasters will tackle the inaugural Concrete Hero in Vancouver next weekend - an extreme obstacle course meant to challenge participants and raise money for cancer research.

Tentative agreement reached with Sodexo

The Hospital Employees' Union (HEU) has negotiated a critical agreement with one of three multinational contractors that together employ more than 4,400 support staff at dozens of hospitals and care facilities in the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island

Board opposes geoduck farm off Nelson Island

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) has registered strong opposition to a proposal for an aquaculture site off Nelson Island near Cape Cockburn.

SCRD drafting rules for wind turbines

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) is looking to regulate wind turbines. On Sept.

Familiar face leaves Sunshine Coast RCMP

Sgt. Russ Howard, a familiar face at the Sunshine Coast RCMP Detachment, will soon leave the Coast for a new posting in Nanaimo.

DFO to investigate contaminated sites

Four sites in Gibsons Harbour have been identified by the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) as "contaminated," but further study is needed to determine if remedial action needs to be taken, a DFO spokesman told Coast Reporter this week

BCTS defers Dakota Bowl timber sale

BC Timber Sales (BCTS) has delayed the logging of 68 hectares of old-growth forest in Dakota Bowl on Mount Elphinstone, after flagging one of the five cutblocks for its unique ecological/cultural attributes.

Building without permit tops bylaw complaints

Building without a permit was the number one source of bylaw enforcement complaints during the first half of the year, Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) chief building inspector and bylaw manager Peter Longhi reported last week.