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A $20,000 donation was made to Steve Tompkins and his 11-year-old daughter Sarah at the Extra Foods in Sechelt, Jan. 17, to help the family purchase mobility access for their vehicle.

Growers of medicinal marijuana for personal use don't want to be restricted to an industrial or agricultural area to grow because they can't afford it.

The Porpoise Bay Golf and Country Club (formerly Sechelt Golf and Country Club), weather permitting, remains open - and for the time being, rounds are free.

Except for a minor name change in the official community plan (OCP) amendment bylaw, Target Marine Hatcheries' proposal to process sturgeon onsite passed the required readings to get underway without any discussion Wednesday night.

The Pender Harbour volunteer fire department is looking at purchasing a new pump truck in order to maintain its level of service and retire one of its older vehicles.

For the eighth year in a row, the Canadian award for excellence in financial reporting has been awarded to the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) for its annua

The theme for this year's National Non-Smoking Week is breaking up is hard to do, but breaking up with tobacco this new year is easier for British Columbians thanks to B.C.'s smoking cessation program. Since the program launched on Sept.

B.C.'s chief forester has set the allowable annual cut for the Sunshine Coast timber supply area at 1,197,949 cubic metres, unchanged from the previous level. The Sunshine Coast timber supply area covers about 1.

Cold and snowy weather is the forecast for B.C. this week, and that means challenges from a power perspective for BC Hydro.

The special committee on cosmetic pesticides received more than 8,700 submissions, the most a British Columbia parliamentary committee has ever received.