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Hundreds of people descended on Gibsons’ Winegarden Park on Saturday for the town’s first Lantern Festival. “We had a constant stream of people making lanterns from 4 p.m. right until the end, which I did not expect,” said organizer Verna Chan.

Sunshine Coast Tourism (SCT) is getting ready to renew its accommodation tax and the destination marketing organization is predicting it will be easier to get support this time around.

BC Ferries is predicting the August long weekend will, once again, be one of the busiest travel times of the year on the ferry system.

Tributes are pouring in online to remember a man believed to be the pilot of the float plane that crashed on a remote B.C. island. The chartered flight was on its way to Calvert Island, a popular recreational spot, when it crashed around 11 a.m.

Plans for a new Sunshine Coast hospice are underway, but the path forward all depends on a lease.

Californian and annual Sechelt visitor Ellerie Frandle, 9, donated a stone artifact she found on a Sechelt beach to the tems swiya Museum recently. Ellerie is pictured with Raquel Joe, curator of the tems swiya Museum.

Sherry Reid has been been appointed corporate officer by the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) board. Reid is replacing Angie Legault, who left the SCRD in July to assume the role of corporate officer at the Cowichan Valley Regional District.

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The District of Sechelt’s second public hearing on a proposed cannabis zoning bylaw July 14 drew a slightly larger crowd than an earlier hearing, and elicited more comments about the details of zoning regulations.