Local News

B.C. Ferries is expanding its free wireless Internet service on the ships servicing the Horseshoe Bay - Departure Bay and Horseshoe Bay - Langdale routes, as well as at these three terminals.

Coast farmers, gardeners and consumers gathered at two venues on Oct. 27 for community workshops to discuss the future of agricultural production in the region.

This weekend motorcyclist Kevin Mason prepares for the ride of his life with the hope of saving someone else's.

On May 11, Sunshine Coast RCMP conducted a distracted driver and seatbelt operation in Gibsons that yielded nine seatbelt violations and 10 distracted driver (cell phone) violations.

Angela Nemeth, 43 and Beatrice Sorensen, 51, were confirmed today (Monday) as the victims of a fatal Sunday accident that occurred during a routine search and rescue training exercise in the Skookumchuck Narrows.

Two Halfmoon Bay Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCM-SAR) volunteers are dead after their rescue boat capsized near Egmont Sunday afternoon.

The cancellation of federal funding for a preparedness program "will make us a less resilient and more vulnerable community," warned the Sunshine Coast Regional District's (SCRD) emergency program co-ordinator Bill Elsner.

A May 17 special committee on cosmetic pesticides made a number of recommendations to promote their safe use in B.C., but fell short of imposing a province-wide ban.

A Chatelech Secondary School grad is touring battlefields, cemeteries and memorials from the First and Second World Wars as part of a 16-day battlefield study tour with the University of Ottawa and the Canadian Battlefield Foundation this week.

Confidence is growing amongst Coastal officials around the possibility that both the zero waste management and economic development plans could be completed this year.