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Winnipeg-born Doreen (Dody) Grant has lived on the Sunshine Coast since the 1980s, first in Davis Bay and as of about 15 years ago, in Gibsons. On Jan.

Drugs and $20,000 worth of property have been sized and a Surrey man is in custody following an arrest of a suspicious male at a Gibsons construction site. The arrest occurred Thursdaynight after RCMP responded to an 11 p.m.

A stop work order has been issued to Greenlane Homes after at least one tree in a protected buffer zone at the Gospel Rock development lands may have been removed, and two in a conservation area damaged.

Baby Ruairí Singh Dhillon entered the world at Sechelt Hospital at 10:06 a.m. Jan. 4, making him the first baby of 2021 born on the Sunshine Coast. The 3.8-kilogram (8 lb. 6 oz.) infant measured 52 centimetres and was due Jan. 12.

Drivers can access the Langdale bypass now that work to replace a culvert has finished. The section of Highway 101 west of Langdale between Marine Drive and Stewart Road reopened Saturday, Jan. 9 at 3:30 p.m., according to Capilano Highway Services.

A 22-year-old man was found dead in Ruby Lake in the early morning of Jan. 2. Sunshine Coast RCMP were called at about 1 a.m. on Jan.

Assessed values for residential properties on the Sunshine Coast saw modest increases in 2020 compared with 2019, in line with the overall trend on the Lower Mainland.

The federal department overseeing Indigenous services has responded to its provincial critics, pointing out that Ottawa transfers housing funds to shíshálh Nation under the band’s self-government agreement and that shíshálh Nation is eligible for add

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Polar Bear swim at Davis Bay was cancelled. But that did not dissuade one brave swimmer. Graeme Green, who has not missed a year, took it upon himself to participate.

John Weston is seeking the Conservative nomination to run in the Sea to Sky next election