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District camping and vanlife ban a near certainty after three readings of bylaw passed by council

RCMP have arrested one person in connection with a hoax phone call that left the Lynn Valley Care Centre drastically understaffed during the early days of the pandemic.

Sunshine Coast RCMP say officers responded to a call about a man with a gun at the Friendship Park pier July 20.

More than 3,000 BC Hydro customers in the Sechelt area experienced power outages July 20 in two separate incidents involving downed wires that caused small brush fires.

A final tally of calls and emails about large increases to utility bills has come in and it’s a lot more larger than the “way over 200 calls” initially estimated by Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) staff (“SCRD inundated with calls about water

Sunshine Coast Regional District directors decided to support renewing the Municipal regional District Tax (MRDT) at two per cent, but not without pushback from at least two directors suggesting it should have been raised.

Sechelt has added the construction of an outdoor stage at Hackett Park to this year’s work plan after the project was approved for $185,525 from the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program.

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has ordered the Town of Gibsons to turn over some information related to the George Hotel and Residences project that it had previously refused to release under the Freedom of Information

A groundbreaking July 17 marked the “imminent” start of construction on the $10.7 million expansion of West Sechelt Elementary.

Sechelt council has passed a special resolution confirming why it is still not able to set up meetings the public can attend in person.