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Public voices strong support for plan

Sechelt and other Sunshine Coast residents voiced near-unanimous support for the proposed Pacific Spirit site development plan on the Sechelt waterfront at a public hearing Tuesday, Nov. 23 at the Seaside Centre.

More questions than answers at meeting

Changing information, a lack of factual evidence and an inability to answer the many questions posed to Cottage Farm proponents resulted in a less than favourable reception to the proposed plans for a new mental health facility in Langdale.

The search continues for Rhody Lake

Five-year anniversary of missing woman

RCMP forum teachers Internet, predator safety

To protect your children from on-line predators and Internet choices which could harm their post-secondary and lifelong job prospects, keep pace with their social networking and computer skills, keep webcams and computers out of their bedrooms, and r

Forum highlights Coast housing problems

A lack of affordable housing on the Sunshine Coast has created hidden and relative types of homelessness - people living in tents, cars, boats, leaking and unheated trailers; people crashing on friends' and family's couches; people living in unsafe o

Joe Jr. not guilty in second-degree murder trial

Phillip Joe Jr. has been found not guilty of second-degree murder in the August 2009 stabbing death of his brother Conrad Joe. The jury of six men and six women delivered their verdict Thursday morning after deliberating since Wednesday afternoon.

Council votes down business licence increase

Sechelt council defeated a recommendation at committee of the whole Nov. 10 to increase business licence fees by $25 starting in 2011.

Deliberations set to begin in Joe murder trial

A jury of six men and six women must now decide if Phillip Joe Jr. is guilty in the killing his brother Conrad Joe last August.

Simons has serious concerns with party leadership

Powell River-Sunshine Coast MLA Nicholas Simons said he was "outed" at a New Democratic Party (NDP) provincial council meeting last Saturday. Simons was one of 13 MLAs who did not wear a bright yellow scarf at the Nov.

Ground breaking set for RCMP building

Gibsons council will break ground for the new RCMP building next Wednesday morning (Nov. 24). In anticipation of that event, council passed a motion at its Tuesday, Nov.