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The Sechelt Chamber of Commerce is rankled over the Sunshine Coast Regional District’s (SCRD) amended bylaw on short-term rentals (STRs) and wants the SCRD to reconsider it. In a presentation to the Jan.

Results of a public survey about the Sechelt sewer system were shared at a Jan. 27 budget meeting, giving a picture of what a tiny slice of Sechelt residents want to see done with the system.

The District of Sechelt’s wastewater system is facing a need for upgrades, repairs and replacements in the coming years.

District of Sechelt council had a first look at the preliminary budget for Sechelt’s sewer system – and staff repeated the same message from previous years: the operating fund needs work. In summarizing the budget breakdown at a Jan.

Rebecca Anderson will be replacing Lindsey Grist as Town of Gibsons corporate services director starting Feb. 1. The temporary replacement will last 14 months as Grist takes maternity leave.

A serene beach on an island in Howe Sound, with remarkable biodiversity and First Nations cultural significance, is now a protected nature reserve.

Town of Gibsons councillors had a first look at preliminary budgets for the town’s water and sanitary sewer systems at a special committee of the whole meeting held Jan. 26.

Returning travellers must now be tested on arrival, spend three nights in a hotel at their own cost and, if they test positive, wait out their isolation period in a government facility

Young, emaciated cougar showed ‘predatory behaviour’ in unprovoked attack, COS says

Constance Dora Isherwood, a trailblazer for women in B.C.’s legal profession and the oldest practising lawyer in the ­province, was still working two hours before she died Tuesday at the age of 101.