Local News

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) has received $100,000 from the Bear Hydro Limited Partnership as part of a community benefit agreement.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for June 12 to 19: Early on June 12, a break and enter occurred at a business in the 5600 block of Cowrie Street in Sechelt after a suspect threw a rock through the window.

Amid questions of service equity, the July 12 Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) community services committee instructed staff to explore the possibility of creating a bike lane and walking path function specific to Egmont and Pender Harbour.

On Wednesday, June 13 just before 3 p.m., Sunshine Coast RCMP, paramedics and the Sechelt fire department were called to a collision at the intersection of Cowrie Street and Trail Avenue in Sechelt.

UPDATED AS OF 4:30 P.M. JUNE 19:A suspect wanted by Sunshine Coast RCMP has turned himself into police in the Lower Mainland.

Missing 30-year-old Coaster Christine Sharp has been located in Victoria and is currently in care at a hospital on the island. "She was located and is safe," said Sunshine Coast RCMP Cpl. Steven Chubey.

Sechelt council has endorsed a pilot project that will result in more commercial sidewalk usage in the downtown core this summer.

A "tsunami" of financial abuse targeting elderly populations is coming over the next 10 years, April Struthers of the BC Association of Community Response Networks (BCACR) warned members of the Coast's health and financial sectors during a June 8 wor

More than 1,000 people, including 500-plus emergency responders from on and off-Coast paid their respects to Beatrice Sorensen and Angie Nemeth in a Celebration of Life at Chatelech Secondary School in Sechelt Sunday afternoon.

Plans to modernize RCMP health services had Sechelt Coun. Doug Hockley seeing red at the June 6 council meeting.