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Halfmoon Happenings: Get carving for Great Halfmoon Bay Pumpkin Trail

Halfmoon Happenings: Get carving for Great Halfmoon Bay Pumpkin Trail

Also, visit the 42 Halfmoon Bay artists who are part of this weekend’s Art Crawl, Oct. 21 to 23
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Letter: Look to drought-prone areas for ideas – like water towers

Letter: Look to drought-prone areas for ideas – like water towers

'As rampant development is allowed on the Sunshine Coast and developers inhabit councils, hard decisions on the future of water use and storage have to be made.'
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Second annual MushrooMania festival grows in Gibsons

Second annual MushrooMania festival grows in Gibsons

And featuring a 10-year anniversary screening of Now, Forager
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Rains to trigger delayed salmon spawn on many South Coast rivers

Rains to trigger delayed salmon spawn on many South Coast rivers

Salmon that have been waiting at the mouths of many rivers will start their journey upstream with this week's change in weather.
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B.C. COVID-19 deaths rise

B.C. COVID-19 deaths rise

The 32 COVID-19 deaths in week up to Oct. 15 is highest total since Aug. 27
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Letters: Lower Road speeds a disaster waiting to happen

Letters: Lower Road speeds a disaster waiting to happen

'At the very least, Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure ought to supply some signs to remind all the new city drivers who rush down Lower Road at dangerous speeds, only to have to slow down for a stop sign at either end.'
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Artists find power in stillness and flux at Gibsons Public Market

Artists find power in stillness and flux at Gibsons Public Market

The alluring landscapes by Gibsons-based painter Julia Dodge are rooted in real-life locales where brooding figures contemplate ethereal skies. Sechelt’s Jan Jensen creates ebullient abstracts in which filaments of energy dart and rebound while offering tantalizing allusions to the material world at Gibsons Public Market until Dec. 8
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Opinion: What happened to Relic’s houseboat?

Opinion: What happened to Relic’s houseboat?

Solving small mysteries, a case of mistaken identity, and finding the source of wild goose chases
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Looking for a boat? Former ferry can be yours for $200,000-plus

Looking for a boat? Former ferry can be yours for $200,000-plus

The Powell River Queen, which now plies the Campbell River-Quadra Island route, is set to retire in January and be replaced by two new hybrid Island-class ferries.
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Shaw Road affordable housing project set to start

Shaw Road affordable housing project set to start

As soon as Nov. 7, the first phase of the Shaw Road project, a 40-unit building containing a mix of studio, one, two and three-bedroom apartments, could break ground.
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