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Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) staff are looking into how to make bus passes free or cheaper for youth and families by the end of the year after parents pushed for the change.

Sixty volunteers collected approximately 6.73 tonnes of illegally dumped trash at 31 sites between Halfmoon Bay and Roberts Creek.

Page Two Books co-founders and principals Trena White of Roberts Creek and Jesse Finkelstein have been named co-finalists in the 2019 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards for the Telus Trailblazer Award.

Children began ringing the alarm bells at 11 a.m. in Gibsons on Friday. They kept it up for 11 minutes.

The Gibsons fire department is still investigating the cause of a Wednesday afternoon fire on King Road near Fitchett Road in Elphinstone.

Firefighters in Sechelt were called out at about 1:20 a.m. Wednesday to a minor kitchen fire at Pebbles Restaurant in the Driftwood Inn on Trail Avenue.

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Early October will be busy for voters and candidates in the federal election, with four major all-candidates forums scheduled for Oct. 5 to 10. • The Gibsons Chamber of Commerce has scheduled its forum for Saturday, Oct. 5 at 2 p.m.

After a lengthy back-and-forth, Sechelt council voted Sept. 18 to send a subdivision proposal for a lot on Acorn Road in West Sechelt to public hearing.