Local News

The Coast Guard Auxiliary Unit 12 Halfmoon Bay was paged out shortly after 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3 to assist a sail boat that had lost its rudder. The vessel was situated approximately four nautical miles southwest of Merry Island in Georgia Strait.

On Sept. 6, RCMP attended the areas of Surf Circle, High Tide and Salmon Drive areas of Sechelt where it was determined that a total of 14 vehicles were broken into sometime over night. Several of the vehicles were left unlocked by their owners.

One youth was arrested Monday morning, Sept. 7 after a vehicle was torched during what police described as a local grad party in Roberts Creek. Around 5:30 a.m.

Two men accused of running a marijuana grow-op in Halfmoon Bay will soon face trial. Jack C. Chow and Jack H.

Wage incentives and a scramble to fill staffing holes kept four of the Coast's six ambulances staffed last weekend (Aug. 29 to 30) up from the two ambulances predicted a couple weeks ago.

A Sechelt man is dead and another one is in custody after a stabbing on Friday night, Aug. 28, on Sechelt Inlet Road. RCMP have charged 35-year-old Phillip Joe Jr. with second-degree murder following the death of his brother Conrad Joe, 33. Cpl.

Coast libraries are preparing for further belt-tightening, following the province's decision to cut 22 per cent of provincial library funding for the 2009/10 year.

B.C.'s Liberal government wrestled with the largest annual deficit in the province's history on Tuesday, Sept. 1 when it tabled its first budget update since the May election. Finance Minister Colin Hansen projected a record $2.

Sechelt Community Projects Inc. (SCPI) is responding to concerns that logs from the Sunshine Coast Community Forest near Trout Lake have been exported for sale.

Effective at noon on Saturday Sept. 5 and until further notice, campfires are permitted throughout the Coastal Fire Centre area.