Local News

Residents of the Mercer Road neighbourhood in Halfmoon Bay were celebrating after the Sunshine Coast Regional District board decided on Feb. 5 to extend the water main to their homes.

The BC Lung Association invites the public to a free, interactive family workshop on how air pollution affects health. June Yoo Rifkin, air quality health educator at the BC Lung Association, will facilitate the workshop, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Feb.

A Langdale man accused of murdering his mother is awaiting a court-ordered psychiatric assessment. Mary Richards, a 53-year-old woman from Kelowna, was visiting her 33-year-old son Raymond Irwin in Langdale when she died sometime around Feb. 5.

There is a movement happening in Canada. It's the longing for community.

After a year-long investigation, the Sunshine Coast RCMP seized 400 plants from a marijuana grow operation located in an underground bunker on Gambier Island Wednesday morning.

A prominent Sechelt businessman will stand trial on charges of sexually assaulting or sexually touching four teenagers. Fred Church, 69, showed no emotion during two days of detailed testimony at his preliminary hearing at Sechelt Provincial Court.

Local skateboarding enthusiasts huddled around proposed designs for a new skatepark in Gibsons during an open house at Elphinstone Secondary School on Jan. 29.

A proposed botanical garden project slated for Gibsons could be in trouble after several area residents have voiced concerns.

The Sechelt Public Library is celebrating Valentine's Day by redirecting one week's worth of revenues from overdue fines back to the community.All fines collected between Feb. 14 and 21 will be donated to the Sechelt Food Bank.

Two local Rotarians and a massage therapist will be heading to India on Feb. 17 at their own expense to assist with the vaccination of 250,000 children during a national polio immunization day.