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Shannon Bond/Staff Writer Islanders who filled the Gambier Island community hall last Saturday received bad news regarding public access to the Langdale float. "We want to close it before the summer," said B.C.

Flights between Vancouver and Powell River may be grounded during the 2010 Winter Olympics because of airport security measures. From Jan.

$3.1 million in federal and provincial funds are coming to the Sunshine Coast to pay for some projects on the wish lists of the four local governments.

First Nations students on the Coast can now meet with an Aboriginal counsellor who understands them in a more nuanced way than non-Aboriginal counsellors. School District No.

The Royal Astronomical Society - Sunshine Coast Centre is hosting a presentation of astronomical proportions as Sky and Telescope magazine's Gary Seronik takes you exploring the binocular universe on Friday, March 27, at 8 p.m.

The third and final round of budget talks are done at the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) and residents will see an average tax increase of about 13.2 per cent. Services previously targeted for cuts, however, have been saved.

A Halfmoon Bay man has been awarded $785,000 in damages by the B.C. Supreme Court following a vicious baseball bat assault in 2002.Michael Allen Matthew, 25, and 19 at the time of the assault, was rushed to Lion's Gate Hospital Jan.

Sunshine Coast teens Oliver Gidora and Kiel Strang are ready to take on the world - again. Their robotics team, RCXRM, has been crowned the Washington State Robotics Champions, which qualifies them for the world championship.

Shannon Bond/Staff Writer British Columbians will do more than choose a provincial government on May 12. They will also vote on a referendum to change or maintain the electoral process.

Alberta poet Alice Major will read in the Doris Crowston Gallery of the Sunshine CoastArts Centre in Sechelt, 8 p.m.,Friday, March 20.Named the city of Edmonton's first poet laureate in July 2005, Major has lived in Edmonton since 1981.