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Finance Minister Falcon has launched a new website that invites British Columbians to balance the budget for 2013-14. The My B.C. Budget website - www.gov.bc.

The B.C. SPCA launched an innovative on-line pet search site Monday afternoon that will help reunite thousands of lost pets with their anxious families. In addition to featuring photos and descriptions of lost animals in care in all B.C.

The 14th annual Family Literacy Day takes place on Jan. 27 to encourage families to engage in at least 15 minutes of learning together on a daily basis.

Gibsons' four-and-a-half year old Rylan Johnstone will be featured on the investigative news program 16:9 this Saturday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. on Global.

The District of Sechelt shut the doors and changed the locks at Porpoise Bay Golf Club (formerly Sechelt Golf and Country Club) on Monday, Jan. 9 after terminating two leases with Sechelt Golf and Country Club (SGCC) Ltd.

A 27-year-old Sechelt male is in police custody following a two-hour armed standoff Monday afternoon after police attended his residence following a report of an alleged stabbing. On Jan. 9, Sunshine Coast RCMP were called to St.

It looks like Davis Bay may have the familiar purple truck, Feastro the Rolling Bistro, back this year. At the Jan.

An application to renovate a building for medicinal pot production in Sechelt prompted councillors to look at a potential zoning bylaw at the Jan. 4 committee of the whole meeting.

Between Dec. 19 and 20, a vandal damaged a toilet and ripped a paper dispenser off the wall of the public washrooms in Hackett Park. This kind of vandalism has been an on-going issue for this area. Police are reviewing surveillance footage.

Destin Hans Myles Nooski came two-and-a-half weeks early but was just in time to be the first baby born in 2012 on the Sunshine Coast. "I hoped to have the New Year's baby," happy mom Nina Skadsheim said on Jan.