Local News

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.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following this week: Sometime between Saturday evening Jan. 23 and Sunday morning, Jan. 24, a Sea-do was stolen from the front lawn of a residence located on Trail Avenue in Sechelt.

Despite witness reports, Sunshine Coast RCMP could find no sign of a possible plane crash in West Sechelt on Jan. 22. Around 5:30 p.m. last Friday night RCMP received a 9-1-1 call from the West Sechelt area reporting a possible plane crash.

Sunshine Coast RCMP are reminding residents to be vigilant as there may be scam artists at work on the phones.

Linda Lorraine Howe, the accused in the March 31, 2009 Christenson Village shooting, has had her trial date set for 2010.