Local News

Sechelt is back on the map, and it has social media and the blogging world to thank.

While trying to save people potentially trapped inside a burning home on Binnacle Avenue in Sechelt, Sunshine Coast RCMP stumbled upon a sophisticated grow operation with more than 800 marijuana plants.

If there is a postal strike in Canada, you won't see any picket lines on the Sunshine Coast. Coast letter carriers are classified as rural and are not allowed to strike under their current contract.

The issue of allowing Target Marine Hatcheries to process sturgeon for caviar will go to referendum, following an "unprecedented" decision by council June 1.

The Langdale ferry terminal has just been equipped with a new saltwater sewage treatment plant -the first of its kind in Canada.

For most Sunshine Coasters, the news of the capture of Ratko Mladic, the man behind a massacre outstripped only by the Holocaust in its depth of horror, was just another news item.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for May 24 to 31: On May 24, thieves broke into a storage facility in the 5600 block of Inlet Avenue by cutting through a fence.

In an effort to promote safer, more sustainable ways to travel, more than 16,000 graduating secondary students in communities throughout the province have received a special GradPASS.

The Ministry of Agriculture is inviting British Columbians to comment on possible guidelines for residence size and location on properties in the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR).

Last Saturday, May 28 members of Unit 14 - Gibsons and Unit 12 - Halfmoon Bay headed over to Horseshoe Bay (joined there by members of Unit 4 - Squamish) to take part in a SAR Ex event, organized and hosted by Unit 1 - Howe Sound.