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Award-winning journalist, broadcaster, author and environmental activist Des Kennedy will be presenting A Gulf Islands Gardener in the Gardens of Ireland at the Heritage Playhouse March 9 at 7 p.m.

Property taxes will go up by about four per cent in the Sunshine Coast Regional District in 2004, according to the proposed budget released last week. But some property owners will pay a bigger share of that overall increase than others.

A 38-year-old father who sexually touched his 10-year-old daughter has been sentenced to two years of probation. During that time he cannot contact his daughter, who is in foster care.

Sunshine Coast RCMP are investigating a pair of accidents that sent one man to hospital and tied up traffic on Hwy. 101 Wednesday night. Shortly before 6 p.m.

The Music Makers kids are busy putting the finishing touches on the musical The Jungle Book, a story by Rudyard Kipling, scheduled for March 7 at St. John's United Church in Davis Bay.

Debate over a proposed botanical garden project in Gibsons continued this week, this time in front of Gibsons council. Two delegations presented their cases in front of a packed gallery at Tuesday's council meeting.

A Wilson Creek woman faces several weapons charges after police responded to reports of gunfire and screaming early Monday morning in a residential neighbourhood. It was around 3 a.m.

The stairs in Shaun Stephens-Whale's home have been getting quite a workout lately. The 14-year-old from Roberts Creek has been busy training for the B.C. Lung Association's third annual Climb The Wall: The StairClimb For Clean Air.

Friends and relatives of Ray Irwin, the Langdale man charged with the first-degree murder of his mother, are questioning the care Irwin received from St. Mary's Hospital in Sechelt before he allegedly committed the crime.

Wasn't that a party? The Pender Harbour Women's Connection celebrated its fifth anniversary last week by transforming the Music School into a living Valentine.