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The fate of the Coast's only drop-in centre for people with mental illness lies in the hands of the community this week.

Residents of Gibsons, West Howe Sound and Elphinstone will be casting their votes Nov. 18 on whether to form into a new municipality, but the structure of the vote count has yet to be decided. Ida Chong, B.C.

Gibsons residents packed into council chambers Tuesday night for the continuation of a public hearing for a zoning amendment bylaw to allow for a new 10-unit condo development along the waterfront. The hearing started on Aug.

Editor's note: This is part five of Cathie Roy's diary, a seven-part series on the recent Pulling Together canoe voyage designed to bring together First Nations, youth and police forces.

A 33-year-old motorcyclist from Coquitlam died last Thursday after flying off his motorcycle into the path of an oncoming pickup truck on Highway 101 in the south Pender Harbour area, according to Sunshine Coast RCMP.

Longtime Sunshine Coast resident Jean Clarke's donation to the Sunshine Coast Community Foundation (SCCF) is the seed for the first family-directed endowment of the foundation.

Sechelt firefighters stopped a suspicious blaze on Sechelt Elementary School grounds last Sunday. The call came in at 1:01 p.m.

A Squamish pilot suffered only minor bruises from ditching an ultralight airplane into the water west of Thormanby Islands after experiencing engine trouble early Sunday afternoon, according to the Halfmoon Bay Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Changes are in store for Sunshine Coast's cable television operator. Last Friday, John Thomas, president of Coast Cable Communications Ltd. (Sunshine Coast) and Delta Cable Communications Ltd.

A broken BC Hydro pole resulted in more than 1,300 customers in downtown Sechelt and West Sechelt losing power early Wednesday morning as crews worked to fix it.