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Five-year-old Rylan Johnstone will be heading to China in just two weeks with his mom and grandma, who hope the stem cell treatments he gets there might cure his blindness. The family leaves on Sept.

After being selected as contract manager for the Sunshine Coast housing committee, the Sunshine Coast Community Services Society (SCCSS) has begun the hunt to hire a coordinator.

A proposal to develop a reservoir for the Chapman Creek watershed has been held over until next month.

Trustees authorized a huge expenditure at their first school board meeting of the year on Sept. 11, voting to send $600,000 of unrestricted surplus out to Coast schools.

Radio-frequency water meters will be installed in the Pender Harbour area and eventually across the entire regional water system, the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) infrastructure services committee decided Sept. 6.

George made a second landing in Gibsons last Saturday, this time at the top of School Road - and the crowd went wild. More than 350 people jammed the Gibsons Elementary School gym Sept.

An illegal backyard burn got out of control and nearly took out a neighbour's house in the 5700 block of Highway 101 near Nestman Road in Selma Park at about 5 p.m. on Sept. 6.

Sechelt council tried a new approach to address concerns about Conibear, leg hold and snare traps within the District's boundaries during its Sept. 12 committee of the whole meeting. There everyone but Coun.

Sunshine Coast teachers will be able to coach sports teams and run after-school programs again, thanks to a vote to withdraw last year's motion to "cease all extra-curricular and voluntary activities" on Sept. 6.

A third lawsuit against the District of Sechelt over bylaws allowing Target Marine Hatcheries to process sturgeon for caviar on site was heard in Victoria Supreme Court on Sept. 4. The lawsuit was filed on Aug.