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Pan Pacific Aggregates (PPA) is taking issue with the process for its planning applications with the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) relating to its mining compound. But the SCRD maintains a proper public process needs to be followed.

Westwind Gallery in Gibsons may be small but the vision of owner Morley Baker is big.

About 25 business members came out to the workforce skills shortage workshop in Sechelt May 17 to talk about the huge shortage of workers for trade industries in B.C.

Patricia Hall / Staff Writer Pan Pacific Aggregates' (PPA) proposed conveyor belt and ship loading facility in Wood Bay drew close to 200 people to a community meeting on a sunny Mother's Day afternoon.

Lights, music, fanfare and thousands of people from across the globe greeted members of Roberts Creek Extreme Robotic Minds (RCXRM) during their recent trip to Atlanta, Ga. for the First Lego League World Festival April 27 to 29.

On Saturday, May 13, twelve Norco Team and staff riders put on a riding clinic for members of the Sprockids Coastriders mountain bike club.

Sunshine Coast resident Dr. Gillian Kydd was in Calgary last week to receive a Woman of Vision Award sponsored by Global TV and the YWCA.

If you're between 18 and 28 years old, you have the opportunity to become part of an epic project that centres around the first human-powered journey from the South to North Pole called Pole to Pole 2006: Inspirational Insanity.

Although we like to think we're unique in the world, there is another Sunshine Coast on the planet.

The province passed a law last week giving local authorities access to hydro bills to enter homes with high power consumption in an effort to shut down marijuana grow-operations.