Local News

BC Parks is accepting applications for its innovative youth leadership program Get Outside BC. Piloted in 2011, Get Outside BC was the first of its kind in Canada.

Ferry travellers on the Langdale-Horseshoe Bay route are advised that berth number one is closed from between April 10 (today) and June 15 to complete ramp upgrades to hydraulics and electrical components.

Due to an error in reading the financial disclosure statements for Sechelt Mayor John Henderson, the wrong donation amount was credited to Gina Stockwell. Her donation to the campaign was $170 for cell phone use.

Habitat for Humanity Sunshine Coast will collect 10 million pennies to build a home for another low-income family. Ten million pennies equates to $100,000 -the cost of the materials required to build a home for a low-income Coast family.

Two video production students from Chatelech Secondary School have just been awarded a top prize in the National Youth Privacy Video Contest.

A Sunshine Coaster was recently selected to represent Canada on two International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committees dealing with sustainability.

Staff were directed to prepare a bylaw establishing an advisory planning commission in the Town of Gibsons.

A motion by Coun. Alice Lutes to look at a smoke free bylaw for outdoor public spaces in Sechelt was quickly defeated at the April 4 council meeting.

Hot or cold, rainy or sunny, the season for the Sunshine Coast's extreme weather emergency shelter is over, leaving the region's homeless population with few to no options for accommodation.

About 100 women have signed onto a class action lawsuit launched from Sechelt that alleges Wyeth Canada Inc. knowingly supplied a hormone replacement therapy drug called Premarin, which has been linked to breast cancer, between 1977 and 2003.