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A special summit to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro will have a Coast connection in Abilee Kellett and SideStix. In a few days Kellett will join amputee Kimberly Fawcett, who will use SideStix sports crutches while climbing the 5,896-metre mountain.

Sunshine Coast RCMP placed a four-year-old child in the custody of the Ministry of Children and Families last week after a Garden Bay man was pulled over for allegedly drinking and driving with the child in the vehicle. According to RCMP, on Jan.

Groups focusing on adult arts and sports, animal welfare and the environment are encouraged to take advantage of a special community gaming grant application intake, Ida Chong, Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, announced Jan. 26.

B.C. Ferries has received a solid report card from former B.C. auditor general George Morfitt on the way it has dealt with a variety of safety concerns raised five years ago. In a 73-page report released Jan.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled parts of the provincial government's tougher drinking and driving penalties unconstitutional.

Although the chances of a massive oil tanker spill off the coast of northern B.C. are slim, documents reveal that Enbridge would not have to pay the clean-up costs for an ocean spill related to its $5.5 billion Northern Gateway pipeline project.

Provincial Transpor-tation Minister Blair Lekstrom has quietly re-jected B.C. Ferries' proposal to cut up to 400 round-trip sailings from its schedule to cope with growing losses, Business in Vancouver has learned.

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) is exploring legal action related to ongoing repairs at the Sechelt Aquatic Centre.

Since his election as MLA for Powell River - Sunshine Coast in 2005, Nicholas Simons said politics has made him grow a thicker skin.

Local governments feel they have been left out of the process to assess a proposal to build a sand and gravel mine at McNab Creek in West Howe Sound.