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They’ve been quietly hanging on for more than 500 million years and they’ve got a fighting chance at 500 million more.

It’s “really early,” but efforts are underway to move forward with a hotel development at Blue Ocean Golf Club, according to Bob Heaslip, urban planning consultant working on behalf of Blue Ocean.

Debates over the remaining items in the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) 2019 budget were put to rest at Round 2 deliberations on Monday. Decisions from those deliberations brought the overall average tax increase for the electoral areas to 6.

Councillors in Gibsons are moving ahead with five per cent increases in water and sewer fees and parcel taxes after starting work on the 2019 budget during a Feb. 5 committee of the whole meeting.

Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors voted to move ahead with the recommendation made by consultants to convert the existing emergency planning coordinator role into a manager of protective services position.

Gibsons council has agreed to a request to abandon a zoning change for a fellow councillor’s property in favour of subdividing the lot to build a second single-family home. The property at 702 Gibsons Way is owned by Coun.

The Sunshine Coast Salmonid Enhancement Society is making changes in the face of growing uncertainty about summer water flows.

The Salmonid Enhancement Society is using the situation at the hatchery to call on residents and local governments to step up their efforts to conserve water.

Most of the funding the Sechelt Public Library requested from the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) has been approved, following Round 2 budget deliberations on March 4.

Sunday’s clear, cold and windy weather in Howe Sound made for perfect conditions for sailboat racing and, it turned out, a bit of whale watching.