Local News

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for the week of Aug. 24 to 31: Police attended to a business in the 700 block of Gibsons Way after receiving a report of a possible impaired driver.

Gibsons residents are being reminded to keep an eye on their pets after a too-close-for-comfort skirmish between a cougar and a four-and-half-kilogram "maltipoo" named Muppet last Sunday. Muppet, thankfully, won the day.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has awarded $162,000 to Target Marine Hatcheries Ltd. for a project to advance Canada's sturgeon freshwater aquaculture industry.

Duringthe morning of Aug. 31, Sunshine Coast RCMP responded to a report of several untied boats at Secret Cove Marina. It had been discovered that several boats had been rummaged through. Thieves had made away with a 9.

Sechelt council voted down a contentious Davis Bay highway-widening plan Wednesday evening, Sept. 1, before a heated Seaside Centre crowd of nearly 200 the largest local turnout in recent history. The plan, part of $2.

The Sechelt community has proposed several additional routes for a future West Sechelt connector, which will be discussed at a public workshop Sept. 9.

Buried underneath the streets and parks in what will be the Coast's newest subdivision are hundreds of metres of coils and pipes that no other development in the country can claim to have.

Effective at noon Sept. 1, campfires will be permitted throughout the Coastal Fire Centre due to a decreased risk of wildfires.

RCMP have charged a Surrey couple, a man, 40, and a woman, 22, with theft under $5,000, two counts of possession of stolen property under $5,000 and possession of break-in instruments.

In the past two years on the Sechelt peninsula, local conservation officers have issued 15 dangerous wildlife protection orders (DWPOs) - the key tool officers use to make sure residents and business owners manage their bear attractants properly.