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UPDATED: SCRD employees support strike mandate

UPDATED: SCRD employees support strike mandate

Unionized Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) employees have voted in favour of supporting a three-month strike mandate.
UPDATED: Logging crews prevented from working in Clack Creek cutblock

UPDATED: Logging crews prevented from working in Clack Creek cutblock

Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) says it has turned back logging crews heading to work in the area known as the Clack Creek Forest.
UPDATED: Storm closes schools, disrupts ferries and transit

UPDATED: Storm closes schools, disrupts ferries and transit

(This story has been updated to include ferry cancellations, government office and recreation facility closures) Sunshine Coast residents awoke to a major snowfall Wednesday, with wind and winter storm warnings in effect for the whole region and a bl
Police Report: Fuel lines cut on school buses in Sechelt

Police Report: Fuel lines cut on school buses in Sechelt

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for 6 to 13: • Sometime between Dec. 20 and Jan. 8, a suspect cut the fuel lines on school buses parked in the 5900 block of Cowrie Street, Sechelt.
Premier, prime minister ‘giddy’ about prospect of Prince Harry and Meghan living in B.C.

Premier, prime minister ‘giddy’ about prospect of Prince Harry and Meghan living in B.C.

B.C. Premier John Horgan says he and the prime minister talked enthusiastically about the prospect of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle moving to British Columbia after the Queen announced Monday her approval of their plan to live in both the U.K.
Squamish: Sea to Sky Gondola to reopen Valentine's Day

Squamish: Sea to Sky Gondola to reopen Valentine's Day

Operations resume early after August sabotage
SCRD awards $2.3M curbside food waste contract

SCRD awards $2.3M curbside food waste contract

A contract worth $2.3 million has been awarded to Waste Management to operate a food waste curbside collection program in the rural areas of the Sunshine Coast, excluding Pender Harbour. Directors voted in favour of the contract at the Jan.
Sunshine Coast keeps pace with provincial upswing in purpose-built rentals

Sunshine Coast keeps pace with provincial upswing in purpose-built rentals

The provincial government says data from BC Housing shows a significant increase in the number of purpose-built rental homes registered in British Columbia, and the Sunshine Coast is keeping pace.
‘Dynamic rural zone’ heading to first reading

‘Dynamic rural zone’ heading to first reading

A zoning bylaw amendment that would create what’s been billed as a “rural dynamic zone” in Halfmoon Bay will be heading to the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) board for first reading.
Logging crews prevented from working in Clack Creek cutblock

Logging crews prevented from working in Clack Creek cutblock

Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) says it has turned back logging crews heading to work in the area known as the Clack Creek Forest.