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Sechelt council has started work on the district’s 2020 operating budget. At a committee of the whole meeting Jan.

Those eager for the results of a long-anticipated review of Highway 101 will have to be a little more patient.

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Squamish-based Black Mount Logging has been granted an injunction against Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF), which has been preventing the company from cutting timber on cutblock A93884, known as the Clack Creek Forest, since Jan. 12.

The shíshálh Nation announced Friday that it has purchased the Porpoise Bay land that was the proposed Sechelt Sustainable Community (SSC) site for $15 million. The announcement follows the B.C. Supreme Court’s approval of the sale on Jan. 23.

Three members of the Coulson family are on their way to Australia following the crash of their C-130 Hercules firefighting air tanker in New South Wales, which killed all three crew members. “We are all terribly sad about this.

A service will be held at Devlin Funeral Home on Monday, Jan. 27 for Clint Davy, co-founder of the Gibsons Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre. Davy died on Jan. 18 with his wife Irene by his side.

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A Sechelt woman is hoping her four-year fight to get WorkSafe BC to acknowledge her husband’s death was related to chemical exposure on the job will lead to changes that mean others won’t have to wage the same battle.

Snowfall records set as seven storms cross region in one week