Local News

Federal workers, the CBC and the penny bore the brunt of a slimmed-down federal budget tabled in Ottawa Thursday afternoon (March 29).

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for March 20 to 27: Overnight on March 20, a vandal smashed a window at a business in the 5500 block of Highway 101. The vandal is believed to have used a piece of broken concrete to break the window.

A new on-line tool, embedded into the Pacific Post Partum Support Society's new website, will help women deal with the sadness and anxiety that can accompany the birth of a new baby.

The call is out for all Sunshine Coast residents to join millions around the world and turn off your lights between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 31.

Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) is offering a free whooping cough vaccine to pregnant women and their partners and anyone who has contact with children under 18 months of age, in order to prevent the transmission to young children, who are at risk of

Two Sechelt men have Sunshine Coast search and rescue volunteers to thank after they were rescued last weekend after they were stranded off a logging road in Halfmoon Bay. On Saturday morning March 24 at 8 a.m.

Roberts Creek is updating its official community plan (OCP) and residents are invited to attend the public launch, April 1. The region's current OCP was adopted in 1994.

Members of the Sechelt Nation will be voting for a new councillor next week with the announcement of Joyce Joe's resignation. Unexpected health issues caused Joe to cut short her service on Band council.

UPDATE: AS OF 3:30 p.m. MondayHighway 101 has been re-opened in both directions to traffic following a morning accident involving two commercial vehicles. Sunshine Coast RCMP media spokesperson Cpl.

The Coast's only faith-based recovery program is graduating their second class of participants next week and inviting new people who want to deal with any "hurts, habits and hang-ups" to join Celebrate Recovery.