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A performer who toured as an acrobat with Le Cirque du Soleil for two years will visit the Coast to give a circus tricks workshop especially for kids, followed by a performance for all ages.

Five years after their teacher-student affair began, Heather Ingram and Dusty Dickeson are parents of a two-month-old boy named Phoenix and their story is being featured on the Oprah Winfrey TV show.

Sunshine Coast RCMP have arrested and charged six suspects in connection with a violent home invasion last Friday in Gibsons. Police are also investigating a similar incident which also took place last Friday, this time in Sechelt.

Town of Gibsons councillor Andrea Goldsmith announced this week she is seeking the Green Party nomination for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast in the next federal election.

John Reynolds, MP for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast, is stepping down from a post that pays him an extra $42,000 a year. Reynolds is no longer opposition house leader after leaving the post and tendering his resignation on Monday.

CUPE 801 president Alice Lutes has filed papers to become the next federal New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for the riding of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast.

For the second time since December, the District of Sechelt has postponed a special planning meeting to discuss revised landscaping and architectural plans for the proposed Seascape Crescent condominium project on Sechelt's Trail Bay waterfront.

After close to 20 years of fun in the summer sun, Camp Goodtimes is leaving Camp Byng in Roberts Creek for a new home in Maple Ridge. The Canadian Cancer Society, B.C. and Yukon Division, made the announcement just before Christmas.

The Second Sechelt Scout Group is preparing for a three-week trip to Scotland this summer.

Sunshine Coast governments are working together on a plan to build a new pool in Sechelt and a rink in Gibsons. On Jan.