Local News

Sprockids Recreation Area, a mountain bike and hiking trail on top of a landfill in Langdale, is expected to get some maintenance help from a bike-loving community group.

When Brent Parker began speaking to Coast Reporter, he counted five boats parked in his Pender Harbour neighbourhood, all in various states of disrepair.

A unique recipe earned Roberts Creek’s Bruinwood Estate Distillery the Audience Choice Award for best liqueur at the recent BC Distilled Spirits Festival.

A letter from forests minister Doug Donaldson (“Province moves ahead with Clack Creek licence auction,” April 5) indicating that the Clack Creek Forest will be harvested and that Reed Road forest will remain off the auction list until a land use plan

Sechelt mayor Darnelda Siegers says the district will not be making any further public comments about the situation at the Seawatch subdivision after being served notice of pending litigation by property owners. Seawatch was evacuated Feb.

The third anniversary of B.C.’s declaration of a public health emergency to combat the rising number of drug-related deaths and overdoses was acknowledged across Canada, and in a sombre memorial at the Davis Bay Pier on April 16.

The District of Sechelt is closing the southwest baseball diamond at Hackett Park, starting April 22.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for April 9 to 16: Mischief • Sometime in the past month, a suspect targeted several large machines and vehicles parked near Carlson Forest Service Road, Halfmoon Bay, in an attempt to strip them of copper w

MP Pamela Goldsmith-Jones was in Gibsons April 17 to announce how some of the federal government’s ongoing investment of $33 million in British Columbia small craft harbours will be used by the Gibsons Landing Harbour Authority.

Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors heard from neighbours worried about traffic from Pender Ocean Discovery Station (PODS) but still put their votes behind the project, making way for a public hearing on zoning amendments in May.