Local News

As an unusually mild winter mobilizes Olympic organizers into a frenzy of snow-scavenging, the Sunshine Coast is seeing its own mild-winter phenomenon: non-hibernating bears.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for the week of Jan. 26 to Feb. 2: Sometime between Jan. 28/29, a vandal threw an object through a window at a business in the 12300 block of Sunshine Coast Highway.

Keats and Gambier island residents can breath easy knowing they will still have access to the float at B.C. Ferries' Langdale terminal while negotiations continue with the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD). B.C.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for the week of May 25 to June 1: Around May 21, a thief stole a white rowboat from a waterfront property in the 5600 block of Osprey Street in Sechelt.

Sunshine Coast RCMP are alerting the public this week to two incidents of attempted fraud. The first is a common employment fraud known as the secret shopper scam.

A Langdale resident has expressed concern over the RCMP's handling of a controlled detonation of old blasting caps on Jan. 19 in the field beside Langdale Elementary School.

The paramedics' union has dismissed an industrial inquiry commission report into the state of the provincial ambulance service as "superficial" and launched a legal challenge questioning the choice of long-time bureaucrat Chris Trumpy as commissioner

A former Sunshine Coast resident pled guilty this week to a sexual assault dating back nearly 38 years. Stein Erik Iversen, 70, entered the guilty plea to one count of gross indecency in provincial court in Sechelt on Monday Jan 25.

The B.C. economy is on the right track for recovery, but we aren't out of the woods yet. That was the message from B.C. Finance Minister Colin Hansen at a luncheon hosted by the Sunshine Coast chambers of commerce, Friday, Jan.

School District No. 46 (SD46) is now formally considering closing one or more of: Davis Bay, Kinnikinnick and Sechelt elementary schools. Motions to close Davis Bay and Kinnikinnick passed first reading at a school board meeting Tuesday evening, Jan.