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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.

Grandmothers cried together, sang together and found strength together during the African Grandmothers Tribunal in Vancouver Sept. 7.

Staff and residents of Sumac Place, the Coast's only recovery home for people with mental illness, celebrated 10 months in their new facility on Kiwanis Way with a barbecue, games, music and tours on Sept. 13.

Keri Mount and her husband Jeff are overwhelmed with thankfulness this week after their son Nathan was "brought back to life" after drowning in a Kamloops pool on Sept. 5. "It's a miracle," Keri Mount said.

A strike of K-12 school support workers has been avoided this week with the development of a new provincial framework agreement; however, union members still have to ratify it, and local school boards will have to pay for its promised salary increase

Proponents of the Gibsons Public Market are counting on some well-heeled Coast residents to open their wallets now that the Town of Gibsons has signed on as a potential partner. After an in-camera meeting on Sept.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for Sept. 10 to 17: On Sept. 12, a possible impaired driver was witnessed on Norwest Bay Road near Highway 101 in Sechelt. Police located the vehicle and pulled it over a short period later.

Sunshine Coast RCMP recently busted a pair of unrelated marijuana operations on Gambier Island and Roberts Creek On Sept.

British Columbians who refuse to accept a smart meter from B.C. Hydro will have to pay $35 a month in extra fees, an amount critics call "extortion.

Gibsons Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCMSAR) station 14 in Gibsons was taskedlast Saturday evening (Sept. 14) to assist the coast guard hovercraft in search of two boats lost in the fog off Bowen Island.