Local News

April Fool's Run registrations have nearly reached the 400 mark, with 343 individual entrants and 50 relay participants signed up as of March 15. Demographics now include one entrant from Quebec, a dozen from Alberta and a handful from California.

A motorcycle tour went horribly wrong for a Hopkins Landing couple on vacation in Mexico last Sunday.

Charges are pending against several suspects following three major drug raids by Sunshine Coast RCMP.

Got a song? Got a rant? Maybe you've written a poem or a short piece of writing that you think is downright brilliant and you've been dying to share with others.

On March 17 at 7 p.m., Anne Miles of Gibsons is scheduled to read her poem, "Under a Swarm of Stars," the winning entry of the Cecelia Lamont Literary Contest, at the White Rock Library.

Sunshine Coast RCMP are investigating another armed robbery, the third on the Coast in the past two and a half months. On Monday, just after 8 p.m., a lone male entered the Family Mart convenience store located at 5530 Wharf Avenue in Sechelt.

Government bureaucrats have bungled your paperwork - what's new about that? But it gathers a new spin when the government handouts actually occur in your favour.

Ray Irwin, the 33-year-old Langdale man who is charged with the second-degree murder of his mother, appeared calm and rational during a brief court hearing in Sechelt Provincial Court March 9.

The cost estimate for renovations to the new Sunshine Coast Regional District office has ballooned to $2.4 million. The SCRD board is holding a special meeting with its architect at 12:30 p.m. March 11 to consider the options for trimming that cost.

The Sechelt Indian Band is planning a referendum of band members to decide how to pursue its long-standing land claim. The band is considering following the Haida example by going to court.