Local News

April is approaching and it's time to get ready for another April Tools wooden boat challenge. The fifth annual event is set for Saturday, April 29, at Millennium Park (at the government dock) in Madeira Park.

The defence began calling witnesses to the stand this week in the continuation of the 2004 Pender Harbour May Day assaults trial.

B.C.'s government will make funds available for the first stage of a land and resource management plan (LRMP) for the Sunshine Coast Forest District.

A family on the Coast is fighting for justice for their father who has been cut off short-term and long-term disability and denied a special airbed that son Scott says is mandatory for his father's healing.

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) board has set the combined budget for the Sechelt aquatic centre and Gibsons ice-based community centre at $22.739 million. The design components presented at last June's referendum will be included.

The driver of a commercial vehicle was charged under the Motor Vehicle Act after an accident in Sechelt last Saturday. Around 1:15 p.m.

The Sunshine Coast RCMP Street Crew has been busy the past few weeks busting up several drug operations on the Coast. During the first week of March, the Street Crew executed two search warrants on a home in Sechelt.

The ice has melted.

"This is BC Almanac broadcasting live on 690 CBC Radio One. We've snuck up the Coast to beautiful Sechelt." With that, host Mark Forsythe was up and running with his eclectic show from the Seaside Centre.

Rob Scattergood, a graduate of Chatelech Secondary School in 1999 and Van-couver Film School in 2001, is moving on to bigger and better things.