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To reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 and overwhelming the public health system on the Sunshine Coast, recreation and other public facilities have been closed and a slate of community events cancelled and postponed.

Kim Darwin has officially launched her bid to become the next leader of the BC Green Party, but without the usual launch event or the planned press conference – both had to be cancelled because of concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dear Fellow Sunshine Coast Residents: Thank you again to all of you who have been doing your part by staying home, washing your hands and practising social distancing.

Municipal leaders issue joint statement

Councillors in Gibsons were expected to continue budget deliberations on March 17, although under circumstances that are far from normal.

School will be cancelled on the Sunshine Coast after spring break, along with all other school districts in the province, but plans are underway to continue providing education during the suspension.

A group of seven high school students who had hoped to spend three weeks in Russia are back in Canada after cutting their plans short due to the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Sechelt is among the coastal communities with confirmed cases of COVID-19, but health officials said late Monday there were still no cases on the Sunshine Coast involving community spread – transmission of the virus from an unknown source.

Company also moves to close gift shop, limit food service

A record number ofstaff additions and a swollen operations budget were discussed at length in an at-times emotional March 12 board meeting, but after a two-week postponement for community feedback, Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors we