Local News

Sunshine Coast RCMP have issued a public warning to illicit drug users about a substance that is being sold as heroin on the Sunshine Coast, which puts them at an increased risk.

The Hackett Park washroom facility is being transformed one mural at a time, and the community will soon be invited to get involved. The public facility was built by the Rotary Clubs of Sechelt and Sunshine Coast - Sechelt in 2008.

Sechelt's only street ministry, My Father's House, is celebrating its five-year anniversary on July 21, and everyone's invited to the party. Next Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.

Halfmoon Bay's J. Edward Chamberlain (known to locals as Ted) has just been named an officer in the Order of Canada.

Some Roberts Creek residents were less than impressed by the province's highway maintenance contractor's brush-cutting job last weekend.

Support workers in the K-12 school system throughout B.C., covered by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) have voted to strike in almost all of the 57 K-12 locals, in 53 school districts.

The Town of Gibsons will be asking the Sunshine Coast Transit System and BC Transit to make the new community shuttle bus service a permanent fixture, chief administrative officer Mani Machado said Tuesday.

The Sunshine Coast conservation officer service is tracking a series of cougar sightings in the Welcome Woods area of Halfmoon Bay.

The District of Sechelt and the company building a $25-million wastewater treatment plant on Ebbtide Street held a short-notice meeting Wednesday evening to answer residents' concerns about vibrations, noise and other construction issues.

Thanks to high water levels in Chapman Lake, stage one watering restrictions remain in effect for the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) water system, Bryan Shoji, the SCRD's general manager of infrastructure services, said Wednesday.