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SideStix Ventures Inc. is up for another MISTIC Innovation Award, this time in the promising pre-commercial innovation category.

After undergoing heart surgery, travelling to the Lower Mainland for rehabilitation is exhausting, and until recently, it was the only option. Now, thanks to a special project spearheaded by St.

Capilano Highway Services recently completed work on improvements to a pullout at Trout Lake, making a wheelchair accessible dock easier to find and to access.

In an effort to make the Upper Gibsons commercial area more pedestrian-friendly and visually appealing, the town is looking at changing building height allowances and formalizing a ban on future drive-through restaurants.

Two elected officials from Powell River have told the Electoral Boundaries Commission of B.C. that they want the Lower and Upper Sunshine Coast to stay together in any reconfiguration of ridings.

A Gibsons woman accused of possessing child pornography has also been charged with one count of bestiality, Crown prosecutor Trevor Cockfield said. "A new bestiality charge, pursuant to Section 160 of the Criminal Code, was laid," Cockfield said.

The public plaza planned for Watermark, Sechelt's newest housing development being built on the Trail Bay waterfront, will undergo some changes.

An estimated 1,000 protesters lined the highway at Davis Bay for about 90 minutes Wednesday as part of the province-wide Defend Our Coast campaign.

The chair of the Sunshine Coast economic development task force says his group is frustrated after two years of waiting by the lack of interest from local governments.

In a special council meeting Oct. 24, Concordia Seawatch Ltd. was told they must investigate hazardous sinkhole conditions at their site and fix any potential problems.