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If approved, it would be the largest and most expensive infrastructure project the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) has every tackled. Directors voted Nov.

Rona dealer-owners Russ and Tess Jones celebrated the grand opening of their new Rona Appliance & Design Showroom by Coast Builders in Gibsons Nov. 21, officially adding the store to their two other Rona locations in Madeira Park and Sechelt.

The University of Northern British Columbia and the University of Alberta are conducting studies to learn more about how firefighting activities affect the health of fire crews.

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The clock is ticking on the warm working relationship between Premier John Horgan and B.C. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver.

Councillors in Sechelt have decided not to act, for now at least, on calls from the Davis Bay-Wilson Creek-Selma Park Community Association to ban fishing and crabbing from the Davis Bay wharf.

The Town of Gibsons says funding has now come through for a cold-weather homeless shelter, which will open Dec. 1. Council approved leasing the Marine Room in the Arts Building on South Fletcher Road to RainCity Housing at a Nov.

Sechelt council has endorsed four applications for non-medical cannabis retail licences. In a report to the Nov.

The Sunshine Coast Affordable Housing Society’s proposal to build new rental apartments on Shaw Road in partnership with the Town of Gibsons has been given final zoning approval. Councillors voted unanimously Nov.

Mayor Bill Beamish has sworn in Gibsons’ newest youth councillors, Elphinstone Secondary students Eilis Mackenzie and Gravity Guignard. “We had six applications from the high school this year,” Beamish said.