Local News

Howe Sound Pulp and Paper (HSPP) will soon have new owners. On Thursday, July 15, the Coast's largest employer announced that HSPP and its owners, Canfor and Oji Paper Co. Ltd.

The way local government elections are conducted will have an overhaul before the next round of elections in 2011, Community and Rural Development Minister Ben Stewart has announced.

The North Shore Service Canada Centre for Youth (SCCY) has filled 107 summer job vacancies over the past two months in North Vancouver. And its services extend to the Sunshine Coast as well.

From now until Dec. 31, BC Transit and the Sunshine Coast Transit System are piloting a family travel program for residents of Sunshine Coast.

Sunshine Coast RCMP are asking for the public's help in identifying three male suspects believed responsible for several vehicle break-ins in Gibsons. On July 9 between midnight and 2 a.m.

This coming fall could mark a brand new economic development direction for the Sunshine Coast according to an announcement made at the Best Coast Initiatives (BCI) annual general meeting on July 7.

The Sunshine Coast has lost one of its most active and committed former leaders with the passing of Peggy Connor, who died at the age of 86 last week at Totem Lodge.

Sunshine Coast RCMP may have cracked a string of break and enters and property thefts after the arrest of what police are calling two "prolific offenders" from the Lower Mainland.

For economic development types, the story of how Vancouver Island's oft-overlooked Sooke snared itself a hotel and convention centre is the stuff of dreams.

Guy Dawkins' rescue of a young suicidal woman shortly before Christmas last year has resulted in the Sechelt man receiving a commendation from the Vancouver Police Department (VPD).