Local News

The Sechelt Indian Band faces a significant cleanup bill after a trailer full of hazardous materials caused a large-scale evacuation from a Sechelt trailer park last Friday (July 4).

Habitat for Humanity's Sunshine Coast ReStore is celebrating its first birthday with a big celebration event on Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Flashpoint is a hot new summer television series starring the Sunshine Coast's David Paetkau.

All seven workers on site escaped injury when a large construction crane fell down across the Midtown condominiums and an adjacent car wash in downtown Sechelt last Friday (July 4).

A 24-year-old man is dead following a cliff jump that went horribly wrong at Ruby Lake.

Record water consumption during the July long weekend put a serious strain on water reservoirs along the Coast. Coasters used more than 27 million litres of water on Monday, June 30. That is 300,000 plus litres more than the last record set.

The $39.75-million expansion for St. Mary's Hospital in Sechelt is going smoothly so far, said officials from Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) at last Thursday's (June 26) meeting of the regional hospital district.

The Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP (CPC) has cleared the Sunshine Coast RCMP detachment of any wrongdoing in last July's pepper spray incident on Sechelt Indian Band (SIB) lands. The band has yet to issue a response to the report.

A contentious five-storey, waterfront development has passed second and third readings with one amendment added at Sechelt council Wednesday night.

With a docking agreement still not in place, Coastal Link Ferries (CLF) now has plans to start their passenger ferry service in Gibsons by mid-July.