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It looks like students in School District No. 46 (SD46) will get a little more funding next year, despite a projected decline in enrollment.

By taking a regional approach to economic development, more benefits can be reaped from economies of scale, declared Jim Cleghorn at the Sunshine Coast Regional District's (SCRD) April 26 corporate and administrative services committee.

A recently discovered landslide in the Wilson Creek watershed has been offered by Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) as evidence that the area is "hydrologically compromised.

Almost two months after the mysterious car crash and subsequent disappearance of Roberts Creeker Greg Welstead, his daughter has begun preparations to return to Quebec with her mother - but they haven't abandoned hope he might still be found.

Expected changes to the way Canada performs environmental assessments for major projects could speed up the proposal to build a sand and gravel mine at McNab Creek in West Howe Sound.

Two weeks after receiving several top provincial newspaper awards, Coast Reporter had been honoured at the national level.

One-third of elementary age children are turning up hungry at school each day on the Sunshine Coast. Translated into hard numbers that means approximately 554 kids are arriving to learn on an empty stomach. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Donations have dropped considerably since Christmas and the Sunshine Coast Food Bank needs more help to feed the hundreds who come monthly for support.

At the April 10 school board meeting, chair Silas White reported he and other chairs from across the province went to a Ministry of Education meeting to talk about Bill 22 on April 2 and 3. There he learned School District No.

A man who collapsed during this year's BMO Sunshine Coast April Fool's Run has credited two Coast residents for saving his life.