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Advocates calling for softer measures when dealing with bear cubs

Sunshine Coast RCMP say they seized a pickup truck loaded with illegally cut firewood late last month in Madeira Park and one man has been fined under the Forests and Range Practices Act. RCMP Staff Sgt.

Gibsons’ youth councillors will be ending their terms soon, but they’re hard at work on an initiative that will launch next school year, after the pair graduates.

A pride flag that went missing from the flagpole of a private home on South Fletcher Road in Gibsons likely won’t be returned in time for the Sunshine Coast Pride parade on June 23, as its owner was hoping.

A ban on some plastics emerged as a goal shared by the mayor of Gibsons and chair of the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) at a Saturday climate panel hosted by students involved in organizing climate change rallies on the Sunshine Coast.

The Sechelt Aquatic Centre and Gibsons and District Aquatic Centre will likely get a new youth pool and lane rental rate, after Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors voted in favour of the change at a May 23 board meeting.

District of Sechelt Coun. Alton Toth told Coast Reporter last Friday he had “no idea” why he was being thrown in jail, but he did have a plan for making his $500 bail. “I’m hoping I can raise it all at once by calling [former mayor] John Henderson.

People out on the water or strolling the beaches of B.C.’s coast are being asked to watch for dead, stranded or distressed grey whales as the massive mammals continue to die at a concerning rate.

Sechelt council has given three readings to amendments to the bylaw covering mobile vendors that will allow food trucks or other vendors that have been approved by the district to stay set up overnight.

Every summer growing up, Fiona Beaty's family would make the trip from Vancouver to Bowen Island, where she would spend her time playing in the woods and turning over rocks at the shore in her search for crabs.