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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.

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The 13-year-old youth charged with arson in connection with the June 4 fire in Lower Gibsons has had his arraignment adjourned for a second time. Crown counsel Trevor Cockfield requested an adjournment on Tuesday, Aug.

Federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff's Liberal Express stop in Squamish had the 100-plus crowd uttering "shame to the Conservatives" while cheering for the "alternative" party, the Liberals. And Ignatieff seemed to revel in every moment of it.

Coast-based Linwood House Ministries is helping save lives and turn others around through a project that employs women from the Downtown Eastside to recycle used hotel soap and then distribute it to poverty-stricken countries.

Halfmoon Bay entrepreneur David Skene has caught BP's attention with his newly-developed oil skimmer, which he says can pick up 98 per cent of spilled oil.

Almost 12 years to the day after becoming the director of planning for the Town of Gibsons, helping to transform the Town and winning world acclaim for his work, Chris Marshall is moving on.

After more than a year and a half of waiting, Eric Graham, Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) director for Pender Harbour/Egmont, says it's "all aboard" for the area's brand new community bus.