Local News

Local governments have agreed to pay for a new youth outreach program aimed at reducing the misuse of drugs and alcohol on the Sunshine Coast.

Howe Sound Pulp and Paper (HSPP) was the scene of a significant oil spill last weekend. Mill employees unloading a ship at the company's dock discovered the spill on April 8.

Sechelt author Theresa Kishkan has been nominated for a B.C. Book Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction prize, for her book A Man in a Distant Field. Also up for awards are authors Betty C. Keller and Rosella M.

Sunshine Coast citizens from Halfmoon Bay to Port Mellon will vote June 25 on whether the Sunshine Coast Regional District should borrow up to $19,338,000 to build new recreation facilities.

The landmark Peninsula Motor Inn is no more. A spectacular early morning fire April 11 levelled the hotel. All that remains of the building is a roof overhang.

Three-year-old Quinlan Stamford drowned Wednesday, April 13, after his family's pickup truck flipped off the end of the New Brighton dock on Gambier Island. According to Cpl.

Don't be disappointed by delaying getting your tickets to the historical fashion show presented by the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives Society. The Ivan Sayers show was a sell-out when he was last on the Coast several years ago.

Volunteering has long been a way of life for one Gibsons' woman. Since coming to the Coast in 1987, Sybil Sears has been an active participant in her church.

A 56-year-old Sunshine Coast man has died following a two-vehicle collision on Hwy. 101 Monday night. On April 4, shortly after 8 p.m., Sunshine Coast RCMP were called to the 1400 block of Hwy. 101. According to Const.

Teens on the Coast have their own late night talk show on Coast Cable 11 thanks to some imaginative students in Elphinstone Secondary School's TV Production class.