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A Transportation Safety Board report released Aug. 14 points to inadequate training and organizational oversight as risk factors in the accident that claimed the lives of two Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCM-SAR) members last year.

The Sunshine Coast community is reeling after the tragic death of a promising young athlete from Roberts Creek.

Efforts are continuing to establish a year-round public market in the former yacht club building in Lower Gibsons, but a July deadline to purchase the property has been pushed back to December, proponent Gerry Zipursky told the Town's advisory planni

Sechelt council is showing interest in a curbside food-scrap collection pilot project with Salish Soils that could start as soon as September. Peter Doig, general manager at Salish Soils, pitched the idea to council at their Aug.

Tonight's (Thursday) Movie in the Park event at Hackett Park has been postponed due to weather conditions. The Sunshine Coast chapter of KidSport, who were organizing the event, said a new date for the event will be posted soon.

The BC Coroner's Service has now taken over the investigation into a man who was found dead in a boat near Gibsons on Wednesday morning. RCM-SAR unit 14 in Gibsons was called out to the waters just off Gibsons after a report of a boat adrift.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for Aug. 6 to Aug. 13, 2013: On Aug. 6, police RCMP over a vehicle near the intersection of Wharf Road and Ebbtide Street in Sechelt, after it drove by in the dark with no tail lights.

A 54-year-old Sechelt man was arrested and is facing charges for an indecent act and exposure to a person under 16 years of age after an incident at a bus stop in Sechelt on Friday night, Aug. 9.

The company proposing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at the former Woodfibre mill has applied for a 25-year licence to export out of Howe Sound.

Two people were sent to hospital following a motorcycle crash Saturday afternoon in Madeira Park. On Aug. 10 around 4 p.m.