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The Town of Gibsons has extended its community survey to gather input on the upcoming budget. Gibsons Mayor Bill Beamish announced the extension at a Jan.

Dear Fellow Sunshine Coast Residents: The new year has brought some good news, as we have seen our local case numbers (people with symptoms who test positive for COVID-19) drop from an average of two per day in early December to less than one case pe

Latest COVID case counts drop after sharp rise in first half of December

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.