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“I’m going to try not to be emotional,” said Pender Harbour resident Dwayne Dobson before telling Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors why he wants them to approve permits for the Pender Harbour Ocean Discovery Station (PODS).

A family of killer whales – likely transients – was spotted about 90 metres (100 yards) off the west end of Hopkins beach near Gibsons on Tuesday evening, including a rare sighting of an orca calf.

2018 was a record year for revenue, according to the year-end financial report presented at the Sunshine Coast Community Forest’s (SCCF) May 13 annual general meeting. The SCCF brought in $3,647,458 for a profit of just over $1.2 million.

Tapworks Brewing Company in Gibsons and the Sunshine Coast Affordable Housing Society are hoping soccer enthusiasts will lace up their cleats and open up their wallets to help raise money for one of the society’s projects.

The Gibsons United Church congregation will be worshipping in their former church sanctuary this Sunday, for the first time since the building was sold in early 2017.

A three-day Culture Crawl is being planned as part of National Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations on the Sunshine Coast. Normally held June 21, the event will run from June 21 to 23 and is being opened up to the general public.

Public participation is being planned by the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) as it works to establish next steps for what to do about the controversial 48-hectare (118-acre) cutblock known as DL1313.

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A police service dog named Duke is being credited with tracking down a man who was trying to elude RCMP in Garden Bay.

BC Ferries has been rearranging the deck chairs on the Queen of Surrey, or at least adding deck chairs.